Home experiments - A way to increase the interest of young people in physics, technology and natural sciences

Abstract

This paper is a tribute to my colleague prof. RNDr. Ivan Banik, PhD, who died on July 2, 2017. It was shortly after we decided to work on this article. It took me quite long to continue and finish at least the small part of our planned work. His invention in preparing simple experiments was well known, and this was how we became not only colleagues but friends as well. Our common effort was to make students like physics. One way to increase the interest in physics is to strengthen the experimental component of physics teaching and, in particular, to promote simple experiments that student can also perform independently at home. The simple experiment helps to eliminate mechanical forms of studying, gives more tangible physical content and develops physical thinking. Provides a stimulus for own creative search of physical contexts. Physics is basically experimental, but the experiment is also a natural part of the learning process.This paper is a tribute to my colleague prof. RNDr. Ivan Banik, PhD, who died on July 2, 2017. It was shortly after we decided to work on this article. It took me quite long to continue and finish at least the small part of our planned work. His invention in preparing simple experiments was well known, and this was how we became not only colleagues but friends as well. Our common effort was to make students like physics. One way to increase the interest in physics is to strengthen the experimental component of physics teaching and, in particular, to promote simple experiments that student can also perform independently at home. The simple experiment helps to eliminate mechanical forms of studying, gives more tangible physical content and develops physical thinking. Provides a stimulus for own creative search of physical contexts. Physics is basically experimental, but the experiment is also a natural part of the learning process.