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The increasing distance between physics as taught at school and modern science has become a central problem of physics teaching. While our knowledge about physics increases every 8 or 10 years by a factor of about two, physics teaching very often suffers from obsolete contents and an overcharge with facts. Instead of emphasizing the concepts and intellectual contents with an eye for the cultural merits of physics, we very often become aware of switching over to still more technical applications.
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Lotze, KH. (1995). Special and General Relativity and Cosmology for Teachers and High-School Students. In: Bernardini, C., Tarsitani, C., Vicentini, M. (eds) Thinking Physics for Teaching. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1921-8_27
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