Horváth József - Molnár László (szerk.): Kunc Adolf emlékére. Emlékkönyv Kunc Adolf premontrei prépost születésének 150. évfordulója alkalmából (Szombathely, 1993)

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András Victor Hidden pedagogical aspects

There are several physical phenomena around ns which are unknown to ns because of their permanent presence. The article focuses on the examination of a pedagogical system which is always presented in our thinking, but does not gain enough attention.

András-Tódor Bardócz

Museum pieces of physics demonstration instruments

The author describes the physics demonstration instruments shown on the Adolf Kune Memorial Exhibition. These are pieces connected in part to the person of Adolf Knnc and in part to the physics education of that age in the possession of the High School even now.

Magdolna Vargha But is does move

The history of the Foucault pendulum

The article goes round the famous experiment accomplished in 1851, according to both ideal and objective meanings.

Why should after Galilei’s and Copernic’s argumentation - for certain enough convincing for their contemporaries - more than 100 years still searching for evidence that the Earth moves? Why did the experiment have such a great effect on the contemporaries?

Answering the above mentioned questions the author tries to revive the circumstances and the atmosphere of the experiment and analyzes Galilei’s and Copernic’s argumentations.

Elemér Sas

...and yet it does move...

A short outline of the fight between geocentricism and heliocentricism.

The laws of Kepler.

Newton’s calculations and mental process that led to the recognition of the laws of general gravitation.

Foucault’s experiment of pendulum in the Pantheon of Paris, then the repetition of the measurement twice in the Cathedral of Szombathely.

Additional questions in connection with gravitation.

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