Da terra à lua num cometa: a ficção científica de Júlio Verne como potencial contribuição para o ensino de física

Abstract

Science fiction books, such as Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park (1990), present debates about the concept of science and cloning, which can be brought to the classroom by the teacher. The articles of Júlio Verne's backpacking site may have great teaching potential, receive visitors who bring their own plot, such as a space travel and a description of celestial mechanics, such as making the seabed, which brings concepts of density, thrust, pressure, etc. The present Work of Conclusion of Course as the potentialities for the Teaching of Physics, especially those that refer to the contents of Universal Gravitation, in 1865, and Heitor Servadac (1877), both of Julio Verne. For the evaluation of the works was used as theoretical reference for the Literature of Massaud Moisés (2007). As the data of the analysis are possible to say of several concepts of Physics in the analyzed works of Verne. Although the journey around the Moon is much richer in his descriptions of the sciences, Heitor Servadac is more agile, and has a plot in which the concepts are more experienced than the contextualized ones. It is also important to point out that Jules Verne's works are consistent with the time to which the writer lived. Both works were analyzed dealing with astronomy and space travel, and in the nineteenth century there was a great expansion of the study of astronomy and dissemination of results. As the teaching potential of the works, it was given that this can be useful to assist the teacher in presenting reference works, that is, universal recording, which was the focus of the work, but for other subjects such as ethics and thermodynamics. Yet, they can be trouble-free and generate.