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The speed of light or the speeds of light?

Authors :
Elmo Benedetto
Gerardo Iovane
Source :
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, Volume: 44, Article number: e20210421, Published: 16 FEB 2022, Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física v.44 2022, Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF), instacron:SBF
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Sociedade Brasileira de FĂ­sica, 2022.

Abstract

The Italian government’s Ministry of Public Education, which defines the high school curricula, has introduced almost all the topics of modern physics for students in their last year of high school. The theory of relativity is, perhaps, the argument most developed. The students, doing a web search, read that the speed of light can take different values in General Relativity (GR). We have noticed that this concept creates a lot of confusion and also a misconception in young students. In this paper, we want to describe a lecture given in the classroom about this topic.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, Volume: 44, Article number: e20210421, Published: 16 FEB 2022, Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física v.44 2022, Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF), instacron:SBF
Accession number :
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