Child's Conception of Movement and Speed

by Piaget,Jean

• ISBN13: 9780415402224
• ISBN10: 0415402220
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135658472
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-04
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This book was first published in 1970.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Successive Order or Placing
The Problem of Alternative Directions of Travel	p. 3
Order of Succession Inherent in Cyclic Movements	p. 34
Change of Location
The Path Traversed	p. 57
The Composition of Displacements	p. 73
Relative Movements	p. 102
Qualitative Speed
The Intuition of Speed	p. 121
Elaboration of Relations of Speed in Synchronous Movements	p. 155
Relative Speeds	p. 186
The Quantification of Speed
Speeds of Movements in Succession Travelling Unequal Distances in Unequal Times	p. 201
Conservation of Uniform Speeds and their Relationships	p. 226
Uniformly Accelerated Movement	p. 259
Conclusions
The Operations Constituting Movement and Speed	p. 279
Index	p. 306
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