La Nube: La Manera Mas Emocionante De Experimentar Espejos Planos

TL;DR

This paper explores an innovative physics teaching method using a horizontal plane mirror at nose level to deepen students' conceptual understanding and promote mental independence in learning physics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel experimental approach with simple mirrors to enhance conceptual learning and emphasizes the importance of mental independence in physics education.

Findings

Students gain deeper conceptual insights through the mirror experiment.

The method encourages mental independence and analytical thinking.

Simple experiments can lead to new physics insights without complex setups.

Abstract

ESPANOL: Una experiencia que parte del uso de un espejo plano colocado horizontalmente a la altura de la nariz del observador, que permite uma nueva dimension a la experiencia de ver imagenes com espejos simples, sirve para discutir lo que aun puede hacerse para que el estudiante gane uma vision mas profunda y conceptual en el aprendizaje de la fisica. El enfasis esta en la idea de independencia mental, que incluye la de que nuevos resultados pueden surgir en el analisis de experimentos que no necesariamente precisan ser hechos con elementos nuevos o de sofisticada realizacion. ENGLISH TRANSLATION: The experience of employing a plane mirror located at the height of the nose of an observer, giving a new dimension to the experiences made with simple mirrors, is used as an example into the discussion of what can be done for the student to reach a deeper and conceptual insight in learning Physics. The main idea lays on the mental independence, which includes that new results can come through the analysis of experiments which not necessarily needs to be made with new elements or through a sophisticated procedure.