COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FIELD ELECTIVE 2 (HISTORICAL APPROACH IN MODERN PHYSICS TEACHING)

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FIZ 2127 FIELD ELECTIVE 2 (HISTORICAL APPROACH IN MODERN PHYSICS TEACHING) ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Physics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FATIH ÖNDER

Offered to

Physics Teacher Education

Course Objective

Teaching modern physics using a historical approach.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Expressing the change in the concept of motion in the historical process
2   Knowing how the concept of relativity emerged
3   Being able to express gravity comparatively
4   Being able to explain the dual nature of matter and light
5   Considering the quantum theory according to Einstein and Bohr

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Motion from Parmenides to the present day
2 Is there a need for experimentation and observation
3 Motion and the universe according to Aristotle,Galileo and Newton
4 The path to electromagnetism: Faraday and Maxwell
5 Changes in the concept of time
6 Mass and energy
7 General Review, Midterm
8 Is there gravity
9 Duality
10 Matter waves and the collapse of determinism
11 Reviewing the double-slit experiment
12 Uncertainty principle
13 Einstein's objection to quantum theory
14 Paradoxes
15 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Serway A.R.ve Beichner R.J. (2005). Fen ve Mühendislik için Fizik-Modern Fizik, Istanbul: Palme Yayıncılık.
2. Taylor, J. R., Zafiratos, C. D., Dubson, M. A.(2008), Fen ve Mühendislikte Modern Fizik, Ankara:Okutman yayıncılık

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
In-class practices 13 2 26
Independant Study 10 2 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55