Experiential Learning – Contributions to a phenomenological physics
Experiential learning places sensory perception at the center of the process of knowledge acquisition and explores physical phenomena in their embodied, sensuous presence—through seeing, hearing, touching, or smelling. This approach fosters an embodied form of understanding in which physical knowledge emerges from one’s own lived experience. The phenomenological perspective thus opens up an approach to physics that is not only cognitive, but also aesthetically and bodily grounded.
Measuring the Sun
Imaging the Sun with a pinhole camera is a familiar school experiment.
But would you expect that it can even reveal the Sun’s annual variation in apparent size?
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Strange Shadows?
Although shadows are usually considered a simple phenomenon, they are still capable of
surprising us again and again. Have you ever seen the shadow of a lamp?
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Rings of Light
When a candle is viewed through a glass sphere, an unusual ring of light appears around the
flame—an instance of multiple imaging produced by a virtual caustic.
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