Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Managing Complexity in Material Science: The Role of Imagination (pp. 1-18)
(Pietro Calandra)
Chapter 2. An Unsupervised Quantitative Method to Analyse Students’ Answering Strategies to a Questionnaire (pp. 19-46)
(Onofrio R. Battaglia, Benedetto Di Paola and Claudio Fazio)
Chapter 3. Integrating a Computational Perspective in Physics Courses (pp. 47-76)
(Marcos Daniel Caballero and Morten Hjorth-Jensen)
Chapter 4. Legacy and Influence in Mathematics and Physics with Educational Technology: A Laboratory Example (pp. 77-96)
(Annarosa Serpe and Maria Giovanna Frassia)
Chapter 5. Evolution of the Concept of Force in Physics and Current Nanoscience: New Perspectives in Teaching Programs (pp. 97-116)
(Domenico Lombardo)
Chapter 6. A Conic Pendulum of Variable Length Analysed by Wavelets (pp. 117-132)
(M. T. Caccamo and S. Magazù)
Chapter 7. A New Approach to the Adiabatic Piston Problem through the Arduino Board and Innovative Frequency Analysis Procedures (pp. 133-156)
(Castorina G., Caccamo M.T. and Magazù S.)
Chapter 8. Acoustic Standing Waves (pp. 157-190)
(Cannuli A., Caccamo M.T., Sabatino G. and Magazù S.)
Chapter 9. Meteorological Maps: How Are They Made and How to Read Them. A Brief History of the Synoptic Meteorology during the Last Three Centuries
(pp. 191-224)
(F. Colombo, M.T. Caccamo and S. Magazù)
Chapter 10. Fourier and Wavelet Analyses of Climate Data (pp. 225-242)
(S. Magazù and M.T. Caccamo)
Chapter 11. A Conceptual Map for Multidisciplinary Approaches of Soft Condensed Matter Physics in Postgraduate Programs (pp. 243-258)
(Domenico Lombardo and Mikhail A. Kiselev)
Chapter 12. Generalized Wien’s Displacement Law of Thermal Radiation of a Real-Body (pp. 259-276)
(Anatoliy I Fisenko, Vladimir F Lemberg, Sergey N Ivashov)
Chapter 13. Physics of Biological Membrane: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Education (pp. 277-296)
(Domenico Lombardo and Mikhail A. Kiselev)
About the Editor (pp. 297-298)
Index (pp. 299)
Keywords: Science epistemology, Physics Education, Computational Physics, Computing in Science Education, Teaching in Physics, Learning processes, New Mathematics contents for Physics courses , Laboratory in Physics training courses, Communication of scientific culture, Dissemination of scientific culture.
The book is addressed to academic and school teachers and to researchers in the field of Physics education.