written by
Eleanor C. Sayre, Michael C. Wittmann, and John R. Thompson
We developed an iterative survey to study the process of resource selection in a specific nearly-novel situation - the design of vacuum tube diodes. Preliminary data from upper-level undergraduate physics majors suggest that the ability to identify diode function in simple circuits predicts the ability to construct diodes.
Published September 9, 2004
Last Modified July 7, 2013
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