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Computer-Guided Solutions to Physics Problems Using Prolog

Thomas J. Bensky, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Catherine A. Taff, The Boeing Company

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Abstract

By posing a continual stream of pertinent questions, a nonmathematical computer program can prod freshman physics students toward an analytical solution to one-dimensional kinematics problems.

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Thomas J. Bensky and Catherine A. Taff. "Computer-Guided Solutions to Physics Problems Using Prolog" Computing in Science & Engineering 12.1 (2010): 88-95.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tbensky/16



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