Toys as teaching tools in engineering: the case of Slinky®

(Eng) Though not so much nowadays educationally exploited as it should be, toys are very useful resources in courses in science and engineering. A widely known toy, the Slinky®, is used through this article to explain in a simple way important physical principles and to show how they have been appli...

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Autores:
Reif Acherman, Simón
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Universidad del Valle
Repositorio:
Repositorio Digital Univalle
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.univalle.edu.co:10893/18421
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/10893/18421
Palabra clave:
Transferencia de calor
Nanotecnología
Juguetes
Ondas
Heat transfer
Nanotechnology
Toys
Waves
Rights
closedAccess
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http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb
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Summary:(Eng) Though not so much nowadays educationally exploited as it should be, toys are very useful resources in courses in science and engineering. A widely known toy, the Slinky®, is used through this article to explain in a simple way important physical principles and to show how they have been applied for scientific and technological developments.