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physics.ed-ph2003★ 57 cited
Students' Models of Newton's Second Law in Mechanics and Electromagnetism
Salomon Itza-Ortiz, N. Sanjay Rebello, Dean A. Zollman
We investigated students' use of Newton's second law in mechanics and electromagnetism contexts by interviewing students in a two-semester calculus-based physics course. We observe…
physics.ed-ph2002★ 38 cited
The Vocabulary of Introductory Physics and its Implications for Learning Physics
S. Itza-Ortiz, N. S. Rebello, D. Zollman +1
We investigate studnets' use of words used in everyday language as well as in physics. We find students are more likely to identify and explain the meaning of the word as it is use…