R. Pepper, S. Chasteen, S. Pollock, and K. Perkins, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 245-248.
We discuss student conceptual difficulties with Gauss’s law observed in an upper-division Electricity and Magnetism (E&M) course. Difficulties at this level have been described in…
C. Wallace and S. Chasteen, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 6 (2), 020115 (2010).
This study presents and interprets some conceptual difficulties junior-level physics students experience with Ampère's law. We present both quantitative data, based on students’…