CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH HEISENBERG

GALANTE, L.; ARLEGO MARCELO; FANARO MARIA DE LOS ANGELES; GNESI, I.

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

In this work we present a pedagogical strategy to introduce the Heisenberguncertainty principle to high school students. The basis on which thisproposal relies is the Fourier transform. This mathematical relationship directly leads to the uncertainty principle: a state localized in the former domain will present an inversely proportional dispersion in the latter domain. Since in acoustic we have an analog situation we can carry out experiments with sounds leading students to the understanding of the uncertainty relation. In our approach a slightly modified musical theme from the Steven Spielberg movie ?Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the starting point to reach the uncertainty relation.