Nahum Kipnis

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What is your attitude towards teaching qualitative physics?

I have to add two qualifications. One is a definition: I call "qualitative" such physics in which mathematics is accidental or does not enter at all. Some textbooks call non-mathematical physics...

03 March 2015 8,815 6 View

Would you assign your students to do physical experiments at home?

Some oppose on the ground of an uncertain safety at home, others think that teachers can condition these experiments to be made in the presence of adults. The opponents also stress lack of...

03 March 2015 9,163 10 View

Is it important to excite students' curiosity and initiative for learning physics (science)? If yes, what methods do you use?

I use what I call the "historical-investigative" method, which focuses on presenting scientific concepts as in the process of their discovery. The main vehicle for this is "rediscovering" these...

03 March 2015 9,773 21 View

At what moment is a discovery recognized as such?

Some believe that it is the moment of publication. Others insist that the status of discovery is awarded by the scientific community when it develops a consensus about the matter. And what is...

03 March 2015 5,578 4 View