The imperative of today’s education in the field of physics and natural sciences is to overcome the conventional form of teaching which is mostly reduced to students’ repetition of the appropriate lessons. Having that in mind, we are more concentrated on involvement of students in the teaching process through stimulation of their individual way of thinking and the use of knowledge gained through their own experience. The paper describes in detail three geometric optics experiments that can be explained on the basis of knowledge about the linear propagation, reflection, refraction and total internal reflection of light. These experiments, although simple to perform, are of problem‐solving character because their results represent the paradox between the acquired knowledge and the already experienced one, thus attracting the students’ attention and making them more interested in the acquisition of knowledge.
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21 January 2010
ORGANIZED BY THE HELLENIC PHYSICAL SOCIETY WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENTS OF GREEK UNIVERSITIES: 7th International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union
09–13 September 2009
Alexandroupolis (Greece)
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January 21 2010
Geometric optics through interesting and simple experiments
Tatjana Misic;
Tatjana Misic
aPrimary school “Cegar”, 18 000 Nis, Serbia
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Marina Najdanovic‐Lukic;
Marina Najdanovic‐Lukic
bPrimary school “Desanka Maksimovic,” 18 000 Nis, Cokot, Serbia
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Ljubisa Nesic
Ljubisa Nesic
cDepartment of Physics, University of Nis, 18000 Nis, Serbia
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AIP Conf. Proc. 1203, 1383–1387 (2010)
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Tatjana Misic, Marina Najdanovic‐Lukic, Ljubisa Nesic; Geometric optics through interesting and simple experiments. AIP Conf. Proc. 21 January 2010; 1203 (1): 1383–1387. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3322376
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