F7281 Grammar school physics and its textbook presentation 1

Faculty of Science
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 1 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Bochníček, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Jurmanová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Aleš Lacina, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Bochníček, Dr. (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Aleš Lacina, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Aleš Lacina, CSc.
Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Aleš Lacina, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Wed 12:00–13:50 Fs1 6/1017, Fri 14:00–15:50 F2 6/2012
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
At the end of the course student should be able to:
analyze the items of selected parts of grammar school physics;
discuss critically frequent textbook treatments;
suggest and judge alternative treatments.
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic requirements of a textbook (correctness, adequacy in precision and completeness, appropriateness, understandability, clearness, proportionality; technical quality)
  • 2. Role of textbook in grammar-school tuition of physics (complement, guidance, support, standard; individual study; critical analysis of a text)
  • 3. Mechanics (the history of the discipline, its contemporary state, the development of its textbook presentation, the selection and the sequencing of items, analysis of the physical and pedagogical defects, alternative treatments).
  • 4. Molecular and Thermal Physics (the history of the discipline, its contemporary state, the development of its textbook presentation, the selection and the sequencing of items, analysis of the physical and pedagogical defects, alternative treatments).
  • 5. Mechanical Vibrations and Waves (the history of the discipline, its contemporary state, the development of its textbook presentation, the selection and the sequencing of items, analysis of the physical and pedagogical defects, alternative treatments).
Literature
  • Středoškolské učebnice fyziky a další literatura dle doporučení učitele. - Grammar school textbooks of physics and further literature in accordance with the recommendation of the teacher.
  • ARONS, A. B. Teaching introductory physics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996, xiv, 153. ISBN 0471137073. info
Teaching methods
Lecture with a seminar including discussions and individual students´ performances.
Assessment methods
Colloquium consists in a wide discussion on subject matter.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, spring 2012 - acreditation.
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