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Billiard Balls Metaphors 2016-11-03 09:42:41 Post No. 8452643
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What are billiard balls and pool tables useful for describing or providing a metaphor to in physics and science?
Is there anything that can be adequately described with billiard balls?
On that note, what about some other metaphors commonly used in teaching science, such as the water pressure <--> properties of electricity metaphor, where voltage is pressure and amperage is the volume of water. Do you think these metaphors are useful or suboptimal at best?
Should we stop using metaphors like this altogether in teaching science or are they helpful?
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There is some decent analogies between momentum and angular momentum that make it easier to understand one if you got the other.
Same with electronics and heat transfer. You can draw circuit diagrams for the latter and use some of the same tactics to analyse them.
I see no reason not to teach like this.
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One of the metaphors billiards balls might help represent is the splitting of the atom, when a tiny particle slams into that big nucleus it makes it unstable and its particles fly apart everywhere, releasing a tremendous energy
Previously they didn't come apart because no billiards balls were flying into them at high speed but now that they are, they come apart and roll across the table and towards one of the six holes (significance of the holes is irrelevant here)
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The idea that determinism and randomness are the servants of Conscious agents?
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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle,
because poor Werner was a learner,
he couldn't shoot shit.
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Wew
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