Relativity of the simultaneity in high school: an analysis based on the Theory of the Conceptual Fields

OTERO MARIA RITA; MUÑOZ GUZMÁN EDWIN; ARLEGO MARCELO

Congreso; GIREP-MPTL International Conference on Teaching/Learning Physics: Integrating Research into Practice; 2018

In this work, we present results related to the conceptualization of the relativity of simultaneity in the secondary school, adopting the Theory of Conceptual fields. Two implementations were carried out in four 11-year courses (15-16 years old students) in a public school in Colombia (N = 128). We analyze the results obtained for two didactic situations that approach the relativity of simultaneity from the relativistic postulates. The results indicate that the situations analysed would produce the emergence and awareness of Operational Invariants linked to Galileo?s relativity, which would help to conceptualise the relativity of simultaneity in secondary school.