A Learning Cycle on Exponential Growth and the Energy Crises
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-1982
Abstract
For the past several years Professor A. A. Bartlett has been pointing out the conflict between exponential growth and a finite environment.1 Recently, he has not been alone, as was indicated by the attendance and participation in the Speaker's Workshop: Exponential Growth a la Bartlett held at the Summer, 1980 AAPT meeting at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
This note is prompted by two things. At the workshop, the question was asked: How can a speaker convince his audience of the mind-boggling growth which occurs? Those of us who have faced the same problem in the classroom have a hard time finding activities which help the students experience exponential change. There is a way to deal with both of these problems.
Publication Information
Dykstra, Dewey I. Jr.. (1982). "A Learning Cycle on Exponential Growth and the Energy Crises". The Physics Teacher, 20(4), 245-246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2341015