Presentation
Students’ Use of Symmetry with Gauss’s Law
AIP Conference Proceedings
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Disciplines
Abstract
To study introductory student difficulties with electrostatics, we compared student techniques when finding the electric field for spherically symmetric and non-spherically symmetric charged conductors. We used short interviews to design a free-response and multiple-choice-multiple-response survey that was administered to students in introductory calculus-based courses. We present the survey results and discuss them in light of Singh's results for Gauss's Law, Collins and Ferguson's epistemic forms and games, and Tuminaro's extension of games and frames.
DOI
10.1063/1.2508720
Citation Information
Adrienne L. Traxler, Katrina E. Black and John R. Thompson. "Students’ Use of Symmetry with Gauss’s Law" AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 883 Iss. 173 (2007) ISSN: 0094243X Available at: http://works.bepress.com/adrienne_traxler/35/
Presented at the Physics Education Research Conference, Syracuse, NY, July 26-27, 2006.
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