O ensino de relatividade como incentivo para o aprendizado de Física: uma proposta

Abstract

Brazilian education faces many challenges due to several problems that still exist in the social structure, thus, the discipline of Physics, as well as others, is seen by most students as something ”boring”and ”without practical use”, and consequently, few young people choose a scientific career in the country. This work seeks to bring an alternative way to arouse the interest of students, both to learn Physics in high school, as well as to encourage them to pursue scientific careers. The work was assembled taking into account the ideas of the ROSE project, which consists in, when students’ opinions and preferences are considered, there is a greater chance of success in the learning process. More specifically, the proposal presented in the text refers to the teaching of special relativity for high school, however, always referring to concepts that are taught in classical mechanics, and with this, show that to learn what is classified as “interesting” and “Extraordinary”, it is necessary to first learn the basic concepts that are taught in the classes of the regular Physics course in schools.