id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_rxcpvf7emngwniwtgincssigzu Jatila van der Veen Draw Your Physics Homework? Art as a Path to Understanding in Physics Teaching 2012 53 .pdf application/pdf 23115 2668 53 Education in 1976, physicist Victor Weisskopf wrote, ''Why is physics as a science considered 'inhuman' by so many people, including some of the students we teach?'' (Weisskopf, 1976, p. from an interview with a female sculpture major at a California university indicates that students' perceptions of physics may have not changed much Thus, the languages of the arts can provide a means of helping students visualize the relationships in the physical of drawing learners into the study of physics because it interrogates ''prescientific'' concepts of space and time that have historically been at the center of cultural debates, and thus of general human interest. Each year that I have taught this course, I use the first homework assignment to introduce the idea that one can use drawing as a means of understanding in a physics class. Einstein describes, and to establish the validity of using drawing and visualization in understanding concepts in physics. Students' Drawings of Einstein's Article ''Physics ./cache/work_rxcpvf7emngwniwtgincssigzu.pdf ./txt/work_rxcpvf7emngwniwtgincssigzu.txt