Observations on teaching first-year physics
Physics Education
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Highly successful students, as measured by grades and by scores on the Force Concept Inventory, still struggle with fundamental concepts in mathematics and physics. These difficulties, which turn physics into parrot learning and include confusing velocity and acceleration or being unable to reason with graphs, are revealed by problems requiring estimation and conceptual reasoning. I discuss these problems, the difficulties that they reveal, and suggest possible remedies.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0512158,
title = {Observations on teaching first-year physics},
author = {Sanjoy Mahajan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0512158},
year = {2007}
}
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plain TeX with eplain, 24 pages, 16 figures, open-source license (OSL 3.0)