La Simetria, una altra manera de mirar els materials

Authors

  • David Muñoz-Rojas

Abstract

Symmetry is present all over nature, taking place at all levels and scales: from Universe taken as a whole, where mass is divided in mater and anti-mater, to atoms themselves with their specific around the nucleus, including living creatures and inert objects as minerals and molecules. The present paper proposes using this omnipresence associated to symmetry to introduce its study within the pedagogic contents since it helps achieving a better comprehension and interrelation of many fundamental concepts in chemistry and physics, and it allows explaining the properties of materials. Thus, the paper introduces the basic concepts of symmetry restricted to 2 dimensions, suggesting attractive didactic resources, as M. C. Escher drawings.

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Published

2009-05-06

Issue

No. 2 (2009)

Section

Conceptes i models químics

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