FC2027 Significant Physics Experiments and History of Physics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Miléř, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lukáš Pawera (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Tomáš Miléř, Ph.D.
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Vocational Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Jachymiáková
Supplier department: Department of Physics, Chemistry and Vocational Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FC2024 Methodology of Physics 2
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The lecture will give students an overview of the work of important physicists of the past and present. The knowledge will be used for application in teaching at school to motivate students. An important element is the interdisciplinary nature of the history of physics with technology, other natural sciences, mathematics and philosophy. • Knowledge: a systematic overview of the historical development of physical knowledge; important personalities of physics; significant experiments from individual parts of physics; establishment of hypotheses and their verification. • Skills: place the personality in the social and historical context of the development of physics as a science; perform basic experiments; create a hypothesis based on past experience; to verify a hypothesis by sensory experience or experiment; to make a hypothesis deduction on phenomena unknown to date • Attitudes: the importance of the value of the work of physicists throughout history; pride in the role of physicists and physics in society; to accept the importance of the physical experiment in natural sciences, in education and training.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student should know and be able to: • navigate the history of physics • have an overview of individual important physical discoveries and physicists • use knowledge for teaching at school as a source of strong motivation for students. • apply basic experiments in pedagogical practice • differentiate and classify experiments • accept and comply with professional and ethical requirements when applying experiments in school practice.
Syllabus
  • Syllabus of lectures (by weeks or blocks): • 1. Ancient physics • 2. Medieval physics • 3. Physics during the Renaissance • 4. Physics until the end of the 19th century • 5. Modern physics • 6. Establishing scientific hypotheses • 7. Scientific experiments - real • 8. Scientific experiments – mental • 8. Diagnostics of scientific literacy • 9. Computer-simulated scientific experiments • 10. Galileo's experiments with free fall and movement on an inclined plane • 11. Important experiments of classical physics • 12. Important experiments of modern physics
Literature
    required literature
  • MALÍŠEK, Vladimír. Co víte o dějinách fyziky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Horizont, 1986, 269 s. URL info
    recommended literature
  • KRAUS, Ivo. Dějiny evropských objevů a vynálezů : od Homéra k Einsteinovi. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 2001, 330 s. ISBN 8020009051. info
  • SVOBODA, Emanuel. Pokusy z fyziky na střední škole. 1. vyd. Praha: Prometheus, 2001, 266 s. ISBN 8071960101. info
  • HAJKO, Vladimír. Fyzika v experimentoch. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 1988, 427 s. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, project teaching.
Assessment methods
Final test, development and presentation of an individual project.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2024.
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