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| Stuart Farmer, Lorenzo Galante, Fadeel Joubran, Magdalena Kersting, Gerd Kortemeyer, Ute Kraus, Richard Meagher, Alina Neumann, Joao Pereira. | Lisa Büssing, Stuart Farmer, Lorenzo Galante, Fadeel Joubran, Magdalena Kersting, Gerd Kortemeyer, Ute Kraus, Richard Meagher, Alina Neumann, Joao Pereira. |
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| I) Overview | '''I) Overview''' |
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| || USA || || x || federal curriculum: no || | || USA || x || || federal curriculum: no, some school curricula: yes || |
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| II) Content | '''II) Content''' |
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| || Germany (North Rhine-Westfalia) || Basic statements of GR: gravitational time dilation, equivalence principle, Gravitation and time measurement (describe qualitatively); gravitation, time measurement and curvature of space (illustrate using models and graphics); impact on physical world view || advanced level, ages 16-17|| | || Germany (North Rhine-Westfalia) || Basic statements of GR: gravitational time dilation, equivalence principle, gravitation and time measurement (describe qualitatively); gravitation, time measurement and curvature of space (illustrate using models and graphics); impact on physical world view || advanced level, ages 16-17|| |
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| || Switzerland || || examples from individual cantonal and school curricula || | || Switzerland || Basic principles of general relativity. // Basic principles of general relativity, experimental tests. // The students know ideas and basic concepts of general relativity in a qualitative way. // The students are given a short, qualitative insight into general relativity. // The students can explain the concept of spatial curvature using a simple example. // The students can state the limited field of application of special relativity and fundamental principles of general relativity using a simple example. // The students can explain the concept of spatial curvature using a simple example. || From individual cantonal and school curricula || || || The equivalence principle, the gravitational field, the curvature of spacetime || Implementation of a school curriculum || |
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| || USA || Concepts: Einstein's principle of equivalence, the concept of spacetime and that moving objects follow the shortest path between two points in spacetime, the concept of gravitational red shift, the concept of gravitational lensing. ----- Skills/Performance Expectations: Deduce that the principle of equivalence predicts bending of light rays in a gravitational field. --- Deduce that the principle of equivalence predicts that time slows down near a massive body. --- Explain gravitational attraction in terms of the warping of spacetime by matter. --- Describe black holes, define and calculate the Schwarzschild radius and solve problems involving time dilation close to a black hole. --- Solve problems involving frequency shifts between different points in a uniform gravitational field. --- Solve problems using the gravitational time dilation formula. --- Outline an experiment for the bending of EM waves by a massive object. --- Outline an experiment that provides evidence for gravitational red shift. || A school curriculum, New Jersey (exceptional case) || |
The Status Quo of General Relativity in School Curricula
With contributions by Lisa Büssing, Stuart Farmer, Lorenzo Galante, Fadeel Joubran, Magdalena Kersting, Gerd Kortemeyer, Ute Kraus, Richard Meagher, Alina Neumann, Joao Pereira.
I) Overview
Is GR mentioned in the curriculum of this country?
Country |
yes |
no |
remarks |
Australia |
|
x |
federal curriculum: no, state curricula? |
Belgium (Flanders) |
|
x |
other regions? |
Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) |
x |
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other regions? |
Czech Republic |
|
x |
|
Denmark |
|
x |
|
Finland |
|
x |
|
Germany |
x |
|
4 out of 16 states: yes, others: no |
Hungary |
|
x |
|
Italy |
|
x |
|
Iceland |
|
x |
|
Israel |
|
x |
|
Netherlands |
|
x |
|
Norway |
x |
|
|
Scotland |
x |
|
|
Sweden |
x |
|
|
Switzerland |
x |
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in some cantons, in some schools |
Turkey |
x |
|
|
USA |
x |
|
federal curriculum: no, some school curricula: yes |
II) Content
country |
curriculum on GR |
remarks |
Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) |
Recognize the present models of the universe (stellar evolution, black holes, curved space and big bang) |
Ensino Medio, age 15 |
Germany (Bremen) |
Equivalence principle, experimental tests (precession of the perihelion of Mercury, light deflection near the sun, gravitational redshift) |
advanced level, ages 16-17 |
Germany (North Rhine-Westfalia) |
Basic statements of GR: gravitational time dilation, equivalence principle, gravitation and time measurement (describe qualitatively); gravitation, time measurement and curvature of space (illustrate using models and graphics); impact on physical world view |
advanced level, ages 16-17 |
Germany (Saarland) |
Reference to GR as theory of gravitation and to its significance for astrophysics and cosmology |
age 16 |
Germany (Saxony) |
Evidence for the impact of gravitation on light: reference to GR, gravitation and curved spacetime, experiments with atomic clocks, black holes in the universe |
standard level, age 16 |
|
Selected aspects of GR: gravitation and curved spacetime, experiments with atomic clocks, black holes in the universe, big bang theory |
advanced level, age 16 |
Norway |
… give a qualitative description of general relativity |
upper secondary school |
Scotland |
Knowledge that special relativity deals with motion in inertial (non-accelerating) frames of reference and that general relativity deals with motion in non-inertial (accelerating) frames of reference. --- Statement of the equivalence principle (that it is not possible to distinguish between the effects on an observer of a uniform gravitational field and of a constant acceleration) and awareness of its consequences. --- Consideration of spacetime as a representation of four dimensional space. --- Knowledge that light or a freely moving object follows a geodesic (the shortest distance between two points) in spacetime. --- Knowledge that GR leads to the interpretation that mass curves spacetime, and that gravity arises from the curvature of spacetime. --- Representation of World lines for objects which are stationary, moving with constant velocity and accelerating. --- Use of an appropriate relationship to solve problems relating to the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole. --- Knowledge that time appears to be frozen at the event horizon of a black hole. |
Advanced Higher Physics, ages 17-18 |
Sweden |
… an introduction to the general theory of relativity |
|
Switzerland |
Basic principles of general relativity. // Basic principles of general relativity, experimental tests. // The students know ideas and basic concepts of general relativity in a qualitative way. // The students are given a short, qualitative insight into general relativity. // The students can explain the concept of spatial curvature using a simple example. // The students can state the limited field of application of special relativity and fundamental principles of general relativity using a simple example. // The students can explain the concept of spatial curvature using a simple example. |
From individual cantonal and school curricula |
|
The equivalence principle, the gravitational field, the curvature of spacetime |
Implementation of a school curriculum |
Turkey |
Big Bang, Cosmological models |
|
USA |
Concepts: Einstein's principle of equivalence, the concept of spacetime and that moving objects follow the shortest path between two points in spacetime, the concept of gravitational red shift, the concept of gravitational lensing. |
Skills/Performance Expectations: Deduce that the principle of equivalence predicts bending of light rays in a gravitational field. --- Deduce that the principle of equivalence predicts that time slows down near a massive body. --- Explain gravitational attraction in terms of the warping of spacetime by matter. --- Describe black holes, define and calculate the Schwarzschild radius and solve problems involving time dilation close to a black hole. --- Solve problems involving frequency shifts between different points in a uniform gravitational field. --- Solve problems using the gravitational time dilation formula. --- Outline an experiment for the bending of EM waves by a massive object. --- Outline an experiment that provides evidence for gravitational red shift. || A school curriculum, New Jersey (exceptional case) ||