{"id":541649,"date":"2017-09-22T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=50e5f5d224d5323d8c150d9209f2fb66"},"modified":"2017-09-22T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:00:00","slug":"teaching-einsteinian-physics-at-schools-part-2-models-and-analogies-for-quantum-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=541649","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Einsteinian physics at schools: part 2, models and analogies for quantum physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Einstein-First project approaches the teaching of Einsteinian physics through the use of<br \/>\nphysical models and analogies. This paper presents an approach to the teaching of quantum physics<br \/>\nwhich begins by emphasising the particle-nature of light through the use of toy projectiles to<br \/>\nrepresent photons. This allows key concepts including the spacing between photons, and photon<br \/>\nmomentum to be introduced. This in-turn allows an intuitive understanding of the uncertainty<br \/>\nprinciple. We present optical interference in the context of individual photons, using actual videos<br \/>\nshowing the development of images one at a time. This enables simple laser interference experiments<br \/>\nto be interpreted through the statistical arrival of photons. The wave aspects of quantum phenomenon<br \/>\nare interpreted in terms of the wavelike nature of the arrival probabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Einstein-First project approaches the teaching of Einsteinian physics through the use of<br \/>\nphysical models and analogies. This paper presents an approach to the teaching of quantum physics<br \/>\nwhich begins by emphasising the particle-nature of light th&#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-541649","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\/541649","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=541649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}