| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 542 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy; The Pendulum in the 21st Century-Relic or Trendsetter; The Pendulum: A Paradigm for the Linear Oscillator; Introduction to the Treatment of Non-Linear Effects Using a Gravitational Pendulum; Experimental Control of Simple Pendulum Model; Soup-can Pendulum; What Makes the Foucault Pendulum Move among the Stars?; Galileo and the Pendulum: Latching on to Time; The Treatment of Cycloidal Pendulum Motion in Newton's Principia; Pendulums, Pedagogy, and Matter: Lessons from the Editing of Newton's Principia |
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The Treatment of the Motion of a Simple Pendulum in Some Early 18th Century Newtonian TextbooksNewton's Path to Universal Gravitation: The Role of the Pendulum; Léon Foucault: His Life, Times and Achievements; The Pendulum: From Constrained Fall to the Concept of Potential; Idealisation and Galileo's Pendulum Discoveries: Historical, Philosophical and Pedagogical Considerations; Pendula, Models, Constructivism and Reality; The Poet and the Pend |
| Summary |
An anthology that deals with the science, history, methodology and pedagogy of pendulum motion. This work contains material for the cross-disciplinary treatment of the pendulum from elementary school to high school to university classes. It provides an awareness of the importance of the pendulum in the foundation and development of modern science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Pendulum.
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Pendulum -- History
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- Solids.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Education.
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Pendulum
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Slingerbeweging.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Matthews, Michael R.
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Gauld, Colin F.
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Stinner, Arthur, 1934-
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| ISBN |
9781402035265 |
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1402035268 |
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140203525X |
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9781402035258 |
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6610460132 |
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9786610460137 |
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128046013X |
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9781280460135 |
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