Improving Student Understanding of Coulomb's Law and Gauss's Law

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written by Zeynep Isvan and Chandralekha Singh

The paper discusses the development and evaluation of five research-based tutorials on Coulomb's law, superposition, symmetry and Gauss's Law to help students in the calculus-based introductory physics courses learn these concepts. They compare the performance of students on the pre-/post-tests given before and after the tutorials in three calculus-based introductory physics courses. They also compare the performance of students who used the tutorials and those who did not use it on a multiple-choice test which employs concepts covered in the tutorials.

Physics Education Research Conference 2006
Part of the PER Conference series
Syracuse, New York: July 26-27, 2006
Volume 883, Pages 181-184

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Published: January 30, 2007

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Education Practices - Curriculum Development - Instructional Material Design Electricity & Magnetism - Electric Fields and Potential = Gauss' Law - Electrostatics = Coulomb's Law	- Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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Mirror:: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2508722
Access Rights:: Available for purchase
Restriction:: © 2006 American Institute of Physics
DOI:: 10.1063/1.2508722
NSF Number:: 0442087
PACS:: 01.40.Fk
Keywords:: Coulomb's Law, Gauss' Law, PERC 2006, cognition, introductory physics, tutorial development
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 4, 2007 by Shawn Weatherford
Record Updated:: July 16, 2013 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 30, 2007
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=5255">Isvan, Zeynep, and Chandralekha Singh. "Improving Student Understanding of Coulomb's Law and Gauss's Law." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, July 26-27, 2006.</a>

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Z. Isvan and C. Singh, Improving Student Understanding of Coulomb's Law and Gauss's Law, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, 2006, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5255&DocID=2117>.

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Isvan, Z., & Singh, C. (2006, July 26-27). Improving Student Understanding of Coulomb's Law and Gauss's Law. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York. Retrieved March 7, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5255&DocID=2117

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Isvan, Zeynep, and Chandralekha Singh. "Improving Student Understanding of Coulomb's Law and Gauss's Law." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, July 26-27, 2006. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5255&DocID=2117 (accessed 7 March 2025).

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Isvan, Zeynep, and Chandralekha Singh. "Improving Student Understanding of Coulomb's Law and Gauss's Law." Physics Education Research Conference 2006. Syracuse, New York: 2006. 181-184 Vol. 883 of PER Conference. 7 Mar. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5255&DocID=2117>.

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