Würzburg 2018 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 7: Didactical aspects of relativity

GR 7.1: Hauptvortrag

Mittwoch, 21. März 2018, 16:30–17:10, NW-Bau - HS3

Teaching about gravitational waves — •Markus Pössel — Haus der Astronomie / Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg

Over the past few years, gravitational waves have captured the imagination of the general public and, specifically, of pupils and of university-level students world-wide. This makes gravitational waves an attractive subject for teaching. But their grounding in general relativity also makes gravitational waves a challenging subject to teach. In this talk, I explore different ways of teaching about gravitational waves at the undergraduate and at the high school level, using concepts from Newtonian physics as well as models, analogies, and visualizations.