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Filtering by: Creator Kimbrough, Abigail E. Date issued sim 2019-05-10

Teaching Gravitational Potential Energy: Student Interaction with Surface Manipulatives

Creator:

Kimbrough, Abigail E.

Abstract:

Past studies have shown that students struggle with main concepts of potential energy, such as reading graphs, understanding that potential energy can be negative, and, most pertinent to this research project, connecting potential energy to force. I designed an activity to help introductory physics students address these struggles. The activity...

Resource Type:

Undergraduate Thesis