How mechanics can be treated narratively using natural language

What is it about?

Mechanics is difficult to be learned due to the formal presentation that is often offered in secondary school and to the known difficulties of students. This paper treats the theoretical foundations for an imaginative approach to mechanics (and physics in general) based upon continuum physics and on recent results of cognitive sciences. This approach is successfully applied in the Industrial Educational Laboratory "Fisica in Moto" at Ducati Foundation open to secondary school students.

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Why is it important?

We prove that a narrative approach to mechanics is possible and show how is it possible: we perceive motion as a "force" and conceptualize it and aspects of it with the help of figurative forms.

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