Teaching and Learning Optics in High School: From Fermat to Feynman

• Main Authors: Maria Rita Otero (Author), Marcelo Fabian Arlego (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: MDPI AG, 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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In this article, we analyze the basis of a proposal that allows teaching the notions of reflection, refraction, interference and diffraction from a unified perspective, using Fermat's variational principle, recovered by Richard Feynman in his formulation of the paths sum for quantum mechanics....