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Comparison: Light Rays and the Intercept Theorem in Mathematics and Physics Education

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Plane geometry and geometrical optics have many connections historically as well as in the teaching of mathematics and physics at school. This chapter describes important subject-specific as well as subject-didactic-specific findings on the topics of straight lines, similarity and the intercept theorem from mathematics and the topics of light rays, scattering of light, images and lenses from physics. On this basis, connections between the approaches of both subjects are discussed.

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Notes

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    For a discussion dealing with lines in mathematics education, see Struve (1990).

  2. 2.

    See also Volume 1, Chapter “Models and Modeling” (Tran, Chu, Holten, Bernshausen, 2020).

  3. 3.

    See chapter “Educational use of Ludwig’s methodology using the example of the lens equation”.

  4. 4.

    See also Volume 1, Chapter „Development of Knowledge in Mathematics and Physics Education“ (Dilling, Stricker, Tran, Vu, 2020).

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Dilling, F., Stricker, I. (2022). Comparison: Light Rays and the Intercept Theorem in Mathematics and Physics Education. In: Dilling, F., Kraus, S.F. (eds) Comparison of Mathematics and Physics Education II. MINTUS – Beiträge zur mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Bildung. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36415-1_22

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