Open AccessPhysics Curriculum for the 21st Century
Author(s) -
Katalin Martinás,
Bálint Tremmel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
interdisciplinary description of complex systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1334-4684
pISSN - 1334-4676
DOI - 10.7906/indecs.12.2.6
Subject(s) - curriculum , engineering ethics , engineering , mathematics education , physics , engineering physics , theoretical physics , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics
In this paper we argue that, in Kuhn’s term, phenomenological thermodynamics and Newtonian physics are incommensurable, while phenomenological thermodynamics, naive physics and Aristotelian physics are commensurable paradigms. Teaching based on phenomenological thermodynamics eliminates the incommensurability problem.\ud\udAlso, a physics curriculum based on phenomenological thermodynamics is outlined, in which Newtonian equations are introduced only at a later stage, as a well-working model of the world