%0 Journal Article %T Uma abordagem experimental das propriedades dos corpos deform¨¢veis no ensino de f¨ªsica geral para os cursos de engenharia %A Ramos %A Tiago Clarimundo %A Vertchenko %A Lev %J Revista Brasileira de Ensino de F¨ªsica %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1806-11172011000100016 %X it was presented an array of trial activities guided to the teaching of general physics in the second period of the engineering courses organized in the form of a sequence in which the students explore, test and discuss the behavior of a tracted rubber. it was expanded the expression to the elastic force, adding to hooke's law a quadratic term which allows having a didactic discussion of the parameters "young's module" and "poissson's coefficient". the theoretical underlying adopted in the development of this proposal relies on vigotski's social-historical theory. in the course of the activities, it was searched to form new concepts from the moment in which the students were aware of their needs. %K teaching of physics %K trial %K scientific concept formation %K young's module %K poisson's coefficient. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1806-11172011000100016&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en