ERIC Number: EJ1079135
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Nov
Pages: 2
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Two Mirrors: Infinite Images of DiCaprio
Fadeev, Pavel
Physics Teacher, v53 n8 p473-474 Nov 2015
Movies are mostly viewed for entertainment. Mixing entertainment and physics gets students excited as we look at a famous movie scene from a different point of view. The following is a link to a fragment from the 2010 motion picture "Inception": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3tBBhYJeAw. The following problem, based on images in facing mirrors from that movie, was given to high school students studying geometric objects.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Films, Scientific Concepts, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Geometric Concepts, Teaching Methods, Light, Photography, Popular Culture
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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