Chaos at High School

Tamás Meszéna

doi:10.14712/18047106.749

Vol. 8 (2017): Keynotes and selected papers from the International Conference on Physics Education, ICPE-EPEC 2013 (Special Issue) Selected papers

Chaos at High School

Tamás Meszéna, ¹

Nagy Lajos High School of the Cistercian Order, 7621 Pécs Széchenyi tér 11, Hungary Physics Education PhD Program Eötvös University, Budapest

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/18047106.749

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Meszéna, T. (2017). Chaos at High School. Scientia in Educatione, 8. https://doi.org/10.14712/18047106.749

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We are faced with chaotic processes in many segments of our life: meteorology, environmental pollution, financial and economic processes, sociology, mechanics, electronics, biology, chemistry. The spreading of high-performance computers and the development of simulation methods made the examination of these processes easily available. Regular, periodic motions (pendulum, harmonic oscillatory motion, bouncing ball), as taught at secondary level, become chaotic even due minor changes. If it is true that the most considerable achievements of twentieth century physics were the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos theory, then it is presumably time to think about, examine and test how and to what extent chaos can be presented to the students. Here I would like to introduce a 12 lesson long facultative curriculum framework on chaos designed for students aged seventeen. The investigation of chaos phenomenon in this work is based on a freeware, “Dynamics Solver”. This software, with some assistance from the teacher, is suitable for classroom use at secondary level.

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[1] Caforio, A. & Ferilli, A. (1993). Physica 2. Firenze: Le Monier. Search in Google Scholar

[2] Dynamics Solver. Available at http://tp.lc.ehu.es/jma/ds/ds.html Search in Google Scholar

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