Close Encounters with Heisenberg

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

San Sebastián

Congreso; GIREP-MPTL conference 2018; 2018

GIREP

The Uncertainty Principle is one of the milestones marking the break-up with formertheories describing the nature of measurements at macroscopic level. Its physical meaning hasbeen deeply discussed and currently various approaches have not yet come to a commondescription. The exploration of its physical meaning is probably the best ground for students toacquire an adequate understanding of the intrinsic scope and limitations of the wave descriptionof Quantum Mechanics. A didactic proposal, based on the acoustic analysis of a musical themeform the Steven Spielberg movie ?Close Encounters?, is proposed as a starting point to introducevia analogy the Heisenberg Principle to secondary school students.