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Syllabus of the course: Physics Concept Grinders I

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Code	Φ-107
Type	C
ECTS	4
Hours	4
Semester	Winter
Instructor	Ι. Perakis
Program	Tuesday, 09:00-11:00, Amphitheater Α Thursday, 09:00-11:00, Amphitheater Α
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Goal of the course	This course is elective and is addressed mainly to freshman undergraduate students, as well as to students interested in a career in physics education. Using conceptual questions, in multiple-choice format, dealing with the major misconceptions of elementary classical mechanics and using a real-time electronic voting system, this course aims at creating an interactive learning environment that fosters the students’ explaining and argumentation abilities, which are positively linked with critical thinking complex skills, and helps identify and clear up the main Physics misconceptions of high school students.
Syllabus	The main concepts and misconceptions of classical mechanics: Kinematics, Newton’s laws and dynamics, friction, energy, momentum collisions, rotational and translational motion of rigid bodies, fluid mechanics, and waves and oscillations.
Bibliography	“Conceptual Physics”, P. G. Hewitt, (Crete University Press, 2004).