München 2019 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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GP: Fachverband Geschichte der Physik

GP 2: The tools of physics between, research, teaching and public outreach

GP 2.1: Vortrag

Montag, 18. März 2019, 14:00–14:30, HS 9

On the relation between instruments in research experiments and their representation in teaching demonstrations — •Peter Heering — Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany

A number of research experiments were (and still are) presented in lectures through related teaching demonstrations. This is not a recent development: at least in the early 19th century, devices for teaching demonstrations existed that were identified as representations of historical experiments (or instruments related to these experiments). It may seem clear that these teaching demonstrations are not identical to the historical experiments; and that there are similarities as well as differences between the respective instruments. However, this raises the question what actually has been represented by the teaching devices, and what was considered being worth communicating in the lecture or demonstration.

In the presentation, some examples of research experiments and teaching devices will be discussed in order to demonstrate the potential of such a discussion.