- What is Mechanics? A part of the car which always breaks down?
And Thermodynamics? A kind of aerobic, but in hot springs?
These are branches of Physics. Mechanics is a Science on motion, thermodynamics - science on heat.
- And what is Physics?
- Physics, by an ancient thinker, Aristoteles, is the knowledge of Nature,
i.e. on everything that you can touch.
- So I can touch Physics?
- Sure! And everything what you can NOT touch was, by Aristoteles,
called extra-nature or metaphysics.
- So may I play with it
- Sure! And you will certainly discover something.
Welcome in playing-with-everything-that-you-can-touch. At least virtually, i.e. on the computer screen.
(And what we can not touch, let's leave it to meta-physicist.)
Physics and Toys
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On the Track of Modern Physics
Didactics of Physics with elements of general didactics and didactics of astronomy
G. Karwasz, A. Karbowski, K. Rochowicz, ZDF UMK 2015
ask for a printed copy: akarb[at]fizyka.umk.pl
Hands-on experiments: electricity and magnetism
Making toys multimedia