[Before you start, I hope you’re keeping well. If you prefer to read this in a browser, to make it easier to navigate the links, clicking on the title seems to take you to a web version]. Images - Stories of journeys How to explain how to get somewhere? Draw a sketch map, perhaps including approximate journey times. Want to know how your latest allowed exercise went? Your phone could tell you about the journey, showing you the path followed, together with reporting all kinds of performance data – perhaps more of it than you wanted. There are many other examples where the stories of journeys are storied told in two dimensions of space and one of time. That's an abundant and accessible set of resources to hand for beginning to teach about motion. But it's all in two spatial dimensions, and traditionally physics teaching starts in one dimension, so discarding these available resources. Images in textbooks in introductory chapters on motion look nothing like journeys marked on two-dimensional maps.
Images, Resonances, Echoes, take 5
Images, Resonances, Echoes, take 5
Images, Resonances, Echoes, take 5
[Before you start, I hope you’re keeping well. If you prefer to read this in a browser, to make it easier to navigate the links, clicking on the title seems to take you to a web version]. Images - Stories of journeys How to explain how to get somewhere? Draw a sketch map, perhaps including approximate journey times. Want to know how your latest allowed exercise went? Your phone could tell you about the journey, showing you the path followed, together with reporting all kinds of performance data – perhaps more of it than you wanted. There are many other examples where the stories of journeys are storied told in two dimensions of space and one of time. That's an abundant and accessible set of resources to hand for beginning to teach about motion. But it's all in two spatial dimensions, and traditionally physics teaching starts in one dimension, so discarding these available resources. Images in textbooks in introductory chapters on motion look nothing like journeys marked on two-dimensional maps.