(1) The History of Physical Sciences in Educational Programs for Science Teaching.

(2) The Philosophy of Physical Sciences in Educational Programs for Science Teaching.

(3) What Students think about Concepts and Phenomena of Physical World.

(4) Understanding Sciences. Theories of learning (Cognitive, Socio-cultural, Social Constructivism), Models of Physical Sciences Teaching.

(5) Multicultural Didactics.

(6) Teacher Education.

Eudoxus – Set Books

1. Ραβάνης Κ., Εισαγωγή στη Διδακτική των Φυσικών Επιστημών, Εκδόσεις Νέων Τεχνολογιών.
2. Σκορδούλης Κ., Στεφανίδου Κ., Διδακτική Μεθοδολογία των Φυσικών Επιστημών. Θεωρία και πρακτική, εκδ. Προπομπός.

Recommended Reading

Gerald Holton & Stephen G. Brush, Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science, Princeton University Press.

Κόκκοτας Π. Β., Διδακτική των Φυσικών Επιστημών (2 τόμοι), εκδ. Γρηγόρη.

Κολιόπουλος Δ., Θέματα Διδακτικής Φυσικών Επιστημών. Η συγκρότηση της σχολικής γνώσης, εκδ. Μεταίχμιο.

Κουζέλης Γ., Από τον Βιωματικό στον Επιστημονικό Κόσμο, εκδ. Κριτική.

Matthews, Michael R., Science Teaching. The role of History and Philosophy of Science, Routledge.

Ραβάνης Κ., Εισαγωγή στη Διδακτική των Φυσικών Επιστημών, Εκδόσεις Νέων Τεχνολογιών.

Σκορδούλης Κ., Επιστημονική Γνώση, εκδ. Τόπος.

Sutton, Clive, Words, Science and Learning, Open University Press.

(συλλογικό), Ανοίγοντας την Επιστήμη στην Κοινωνία. Η διδασκαλία των φυσικών επιστημών στην επιστημονική, πολιτισμική και ηθική της διάσταση, εκδ. University Studio Press.

(συλλογικό), Ιστορία Φιλοσοφία και Διδακτική των Επιστημών, εκδ. Νήσος.

(συλλογικό), Διδακτικές Προσεγγίσεις στις Φυσικές Επιστήμες, Σύγχρονοι προβληματισμοί, εκδ. Τυπωθήτω.

Χαλκιά Κ., Διδάσκοντας Φυσικές Επιστήμες, Θεωρητικά ζητήματα, προβληματισμοί, προτάσεις, εκδ. Πατάκη.

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The students for the Internship are selected by the Department, following a relevant announcement. The Internship lasts three months, and aims to obtain expertise and to facilitate the student’s entry into the labor market with better conditions. The Internship in our Department is an elective course of the 8th semester of studies (NME502), it has 5 ects but these credits are not counted in obtaining a degree. The participation in the Internship will be shown with an asterisk both on the Student card and in the Diploma supplement.

The Internship is carried out in companies, institutions and organizations that are active in a subject related to the knowledge and activities of the Physicist, and aims at:

• To familiarize the student with the application of Physics in the workplace.

• To gain professional experience and to facilitate the student’s entry into the market with better conditions.

• In the development of professional consciousness and in the emergence of skills that will help in the future specialization and selection of the most suitable field of employment.

• In the smoother transition from the state of preparation to the professional arena, with emphasis on planning, collaboration, productivity, efficiency, hierarchy, acceptance of responsibility and job evaluation.

• The connection of the productive space with the academic space and the creation of an environment of two-way communication, information, understanding and substantial cooperation between the University of Patras and the host institutions of the Internship.

The number of students of the Department who carry out an Internship each academic year is between 35 and 45. The funding is made through the program EPANEK / NSRF 2014-2020, depending on the existence or not of a funded Project (eg EPEDVM / NSRF) that covers the student’s salary according to the duration of the Internship, as well as the cost of his insurance. The final choice of a student to participate in the program idepends on the number of applicants and their performance in undergraduate studies. The Internship Committee of the Department coordinates the positions by the companies, makes the relevant communication, prepares and distributes information and determines the object and the time of internship of each trainee. Details on the procedures for the implementation of the Internship can be found on the website of the Internship Office of the University of Patras (http://praktiki.upatras.gr/). Also, printed material and announcements are posted on the course page in eclass.

At European level, Internship is provided through the ERASMUS + mobility program (http://www.upatras.gr/el/erasmus_placements_mobility).

Students can choose for an Internship one of the companies / institutions / bodies included in the status posted on the website of the Department of Physics or they can search and suggest others. The cooperation between the teachers / supervisors of the Undergraduate Program and the Institutions of the Internship leads to the joint evaluation of the works and the overall performance of the trainee students. The trainee student writes and delivers a report related to the subject of the Internship.

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Transformers. Applications (induction cookers, induction welding, etc). A.C. & D.C. Generators. Three-phase generator. Electric motors. Rotating magnetic field.

High frequency currents (induction & self-induction phenomena). Resonance. Tesla Transformer. Microwaves.

Electric discharges.

Experiments on geometric optics. Analysis of light with prisms and diffraction gratings. Experiments on wave optics (interference, diffraction, polarization). Birefringence, phase delay plates, photoelasticity. Optically active substances.Demonstration experiments in Electricity & Optics. Especially:

Electrostatics, piezoelectric effect. Capacitors – Dielectrics. Applications.

Electricity. Resistors in series & in parallel connection. Resistivity dependence on temperature. Potenciometers, rheostats, Ohmmeter. Fuses, short circuit.

Results of electric current (Joule heating effect, Oersted’s experiment, electrolysis, effect of electric currents on living organisms). Interaction of currents. Magnetic field (field lines). Lorentz force. Equivalence of an electric current carrying coil to a magnet.

Induction experiments. Lenz’s law. Self-induction experiments. Eddy currents. RLC circuits, resonance.

Magnetization and demagnetization of a ferromagnetic material. Transition of Ni rod from the ferromagnetic to the paramagnetic state (Curie point). Paramagnetic Mn ions in an inhomogeneous magnetic field.

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2nd Unity
(1) Ancient Greece. Physical philosophy of Aristotle.
(2) First Medieval Universities. European physical sciences in the Middle Ages.
(3) The history and significance of ‘Scientific Revolution’ in Western Europe. Sciences and Enlightenment.
(4) Historiographical elements: for the history of history of science. Cultural and Social History of Sciences.
(5) From ‘History and Philosophy of Science’ to ‘Science and Technology Studies’.
(6) The sociology of scientific knowledge. Contemporary debates over ‘Social Studies of Science’. ‘Gender and Science’.

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Conservation of mechanical energy. Principal axes of inertia. Rotation of a body about principal axes. Role of inertia in rotation. Degree of stability.

Fundamental law of rotational motion. Angular momentum – conservation of angular momentum. Gyroscopes, Precession & Nutation.

Oscillations. Free and forced oscillations – resonance. Addition of oscillations. Beats. Lissajous figures.

Waves & standing waves. Wave phenomena.

Elasticity & Hardness. Friction. Collisions. Non inertial reference frames (centrifugal & Coriolis forces).

Hydrostatics. Aerostatics. Surface tension, capillary phenomena. Barometric formula. Magdeburg hemispheres. Boyle Mariotte law.

Hydrodynamics – Aerodynamics (Continuity Law, & Bernoulli’s law). Applications. Poiseuille’s law. Vortices.

Heat. Thermometers. Dimensional changes with temperature. Phase transitions. Thermal conductivity. Heat transfer. Absorption and emission of radiation.

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