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Introductory College Physics Students' Explanations Of Friction And Related Phenomena At The Microscopic Level
written by Edgar D. Corpuz and N. Sanjay Rebello
We investigated introductory college physics students' explanations of friction and lubrication through semi-structured clinical interviews. Although students were able to construct explanations at the atomic scale, they tended to explain phenomena by using attributes of macroscopic objects. For instance, when they described atoms as balls, they tended to associate attributes of real balls to the attributes of the atoms. In the future our results will guide the design of teaching materials to enable students to construct scientifically correct microscopic models of friction and lubrication.
Physics Education Research Conference 2004
Part of the PER Conference series
Sacramento, California: August 4-5, 2004
Volume 790, Pages 153-156
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© 2004 American Institute of Physics
DOI:
10.1063/1.2084724
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0133621
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01.40.Fk
68.35.Af
Keywords:
PERC 2004, clinical interviews, education, friction, lubrication, models of friction, research and development management, student explanation
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E. Corpuz and N. Rebello, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2004, Sacramento, California, 2004, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9554&DocID=3448).
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E. Corpuz and N. Rebello, Introductory College Physics Students' Explanations Of Friction And Related Phenomena At The Microscopic Level, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2004, Sacramento, California, 2004, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9554&DocID=3448>.
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Corpuz, E., & Rebello, N. (2004, August 4-5). Introductory College Physics Students' Explanations Of Friction And Related Phenomena At The Microscopic Level. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2004, Sacramento, California. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9554&DocID=3448
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Corpuz, Edgar, and N. Sanjay Rebello. "Introductory College Physics Students' Explanations Of Friction And Related Phenomena At The Microscopic Level." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2004, Sacramento, California, August 4-5, 2004. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9554&DocID=3448 (accessed 28 March 2024).
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Corpuz, Edgar, and N. Sanjay Rebello. "Introductory College Physics Students' Explanations Of Friction And Related Phenomena At The Microscopic Level." Physics Education Research Conference 2004. Sacramento, California: 2004. 153-156 Vol. 790 of PER Conference. 28 Mar. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9554&DocID=3448>.
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