Negative Energy: Why Interdisciplinary Physics Requires Multiple Ontologies
Negative Energy: Why Interdisciplinary Physics Requires Multiple Ontologies
Much recent work in physics education research has focused on ontological metaphors for energy, particularly the substance ontology and its pedagogical affordances.The concept of negative energy problematizes the substance ontology for energy, but in many instructional settings, the specific difficulties around negative energy are outweighed by the general advantages of …