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Physics
in Stamps
Qin Kecheng
Physics Department, Peking University
One of the topics emphasized in
this conference is enhancing interest and relevance
in physics teaching and learning. One way to arouse
interest in teaching and learning physics is to take
in to consideration the interest and hobbies of the
students.
It was reported that there are 20
million stamp collectors in China, and 3.6 million
are members of Philately Association. Most of them
are young people and teenagers and students of
schools of various levels. If interest in stamp
collection can be combined with learning, we will
gain much in physics teaching.
We can combine physics teaching and
the interest in stamp collection because there is a
lot of physics on stamps, they tell us the connection
of physics with other aspects of social life and
collecting them can foster good habits of learning.
Physics on Stamps
Stamps are excellent intuitive
teaching material.
Encourage the students to find out
the meaning of the picture of stamps, like the ones
shown below:
Sometimes the content of the
stamp are wrong. The mistakes also helps us
to learn physics.
The colors of
the rainbow
in this stamp is inverted
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This stamp
commemorates
the 20th anniversary of Ampere, but
on the right is a wattmeter, not an ammeter.
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There are rich data
and material on the history of physics on stamps.
This stamp records the
tragedy of the Chernobyll Incident
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