THE FORMATION OF PHYSICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLDIN SCHOOLCHILDREN OF SENIOR SCHOOL

Abstract

The article scrutinizes the issue of introducing the concepts of energy and entropy into the school course of thermodynamics as one of the ways of forming a holistic physical picture of the world which favours senior schoolchildren’s deeper understanding of fundamental laws of nature. Within the school course of Physics some of these laws are studied perfunctory which creates certain problems for a teacher. One of possible ways of overcoming this difficulty is selecting the problems where these laws could be scrutinized in the process of their solving. As an example this article provides a solution to the problem of parallel connection of two capacitors, one of which is not charged.