{"id":50896,"date":"2015-02-20T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=375786ee5d806876e17c7b40800ddf81"},"modified":"2015-02-20T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T00:00:00","slug":"thinking-in-terms-of-sensors-personification-of-self-as-an-object-in-physics-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=50896","title":{"rendered":"Thinking in terms of sensors: personification of self as an object in physics problem solving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can physics teachers help students develop consistent problem solving techniques for both simple<br \/>\nand complicated physics problems, such as those that encompass objects undergoing multiple forces<br \/>\n(mechanical or electrical) as individually portrayed in free-body diagrams and\/or phenomenon<br \/>\ninvolving multiple objects, such as Doppler effect reflection applications in echoes and ultrasonic<br \/>\ncardiac monitoring for sound, or police radar for light? These problems can confuse novice physics<br \/>\nstudents, and to sort out problem parts, the suggestion is made here to guide the student to<br \/>\npersonify self as the object in question, that is, to imagine oneself as the object undergoing<br \/>\noutside influences such as forces and then qualify and quantify those for the problem at hand. This<br \/>\npersonification does NOT, as according to the three traditional definitions of the term (animism,<br \/>\nanthropomorphism and teleology), empower the object to act, but instead just to detect its<br \/>\nenvironment. By having stu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can physics teachers help students develop consistent problem solving techniques for both simple<br \/>\nand complicated physics problems, such as those that encompass objects undergoing multiple forces<br \/>\n(mechanical or electrical) as individually portraye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}