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The Pendulum : Scientific, Historical, Philosophical and Educational Perspectives

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy
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    Chapter 2 The Pendulum in the 21st Century-Relic or Trendsetter
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    Chapter 3 The Pendulum: A Paradigm for the Linear Oscillator
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    Chapter 4 Introduction to the Treatment of Non-Linear Effects Using a Gravitational Pendulum
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    Chapter 5 Experimental Control of Simple Pendulum Model
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    Chapter 6 Soup-can Pendulum
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    Chapter 7 What Makes the Foucault Pendulum Move among the Stars?
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    Chapter 8 Galileo and the Pendulum: Latching on to Time
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    Chapter 9 The Treatment of Cycloidal Pendulum Motion in Newton’s Principia
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    Chapter 10 Pendulums, Pedagogy, and Matter: Lessons from the Editing of Newton’s Principia
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    Chapter 11 The Treatment of the Motion of a Simple Pendulum in Some Early 18th Century Newtonian Textbooks
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    Chapter 12 Newton’s Path to Universal Gravitation: The Role of the Pendulum
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    Chapter 13 Léon Foucault: His Life, Times and Achievements
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    Chapter 14 The Pendulum: From Constrained Fall to the Concept of Potential
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    Chapter 15 The Pendulum
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    Chapter 16 The Pendulum
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    Chapter 17 The Poet and the Pendulum
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    Chapter 18 Methodology and Politics: A Proposal to Teach the Structuring Ideas of the Philosophy of Science through the Pendulum
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    Chapter 19 Degree of Influence on Perception of Belief and Social Setting: Its Relevance to Understanding Pendulum Motion
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    Chapter 20 Piaget and the Pendulum
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    Chapter 21 What the Pendulum Can Tell Educators about Children’s Scientific Reasoning
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    Chapter 22 Pendulum Phenomena and the Assessment of Scientific Inquiry Capabilities
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    Chapter 23 Roles of Abductive Reasoning and Prior Belief in Children’s Generation of Hypotheses about Pendulum Motion
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    Chapter 24 Types of Two-Dimensional Pendulums and Their Uses in Education
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    Chapter 25 The Pendulum as a Vehicle for Transitioning from Classical to Quantum Physics: History, Quantum Concepts, and Educational Challenges
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    Chapter 26 Analyzing Dynamic Pendulum Motion in an Interactive Online Environment Using Flash
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    Chapter 27 Pendulum Activities in the Israeli Physics Curriculum: Used and Missed Opportunities
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    Chapter 28 The Pendulum as Presented in School Science Textbooks of Greece and Cyprus
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    Chapter 29 The Public Understanding of Pendulum Motion: From 5 to 88 Years Old
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    Chapter 30 Using Excel to Simulate Pendulum Motion and Maybe Understand Calculus a Little Better
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    Chapter 31 Teaching Cultural History from Primary Events
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    Chapter 32 Pendulums in The Physics Education Literature: A Bibliography
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Title
The Pendulum : Scientific, Historical, Philosophical and Educational Perspectives
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, October 2005
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-3526-8
ISBNs
978-1-4020-3525-8, 978-1-4020-3526-5
Editors

Matthews, Michael R., Gauld, Colin F., Stinner, Arthur

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 42 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 1 2%
India 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Korea, Republic of 1 2%
Spain 1 2%
Unknown 36 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 19%
Student > Bachelor 7 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 12%
Other 3 7%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 5 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 8 19%
Physics and Astronomy 7 17%
Social Sciences 5 12%
Arts and Humanities 4 10%
Philosophy 3 7%
Other 10 24%
Unknown 5 12%