Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.12.2.6

Physics Curriculum for the 21st Century

Katalin Martinás ; Eötvös Loránd University
Bálint Tremmel ; Eötvös Loránd University

Abstract

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.

Also, 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.

Keywords

physics teaching; paradigms; Aristotle; phenomenological thermodynamics; exergy

Hrčak ID:

120440

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/120440

Publication date:

29.4.2014.

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