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3D-Printable Height Models for DC Circuits

Physics Education 2019-08-20 v1

Abstract

We present an approach to learn about electricity and dc electric circuits by using real representational models based on the gravitational analogy. The additively manufactured models are deployed in a small-scale teaching intervention on electric potential and voltage in simple electric circuits. From the preliminary results considerable learning gains can be inferred.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1805.02522,
  title  = {3D-Printable Height Models for DC Circuits},
  author = {Oliver Bodensiek and Dörte Sonntag and Isabelle Glawe and Rainer Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02522},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Conference Proceedings of GIREP/ICPE 2017

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