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Location:
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KFC Courts |
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Date:
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Tuesday, Aug.2 |
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Time:
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5:15 PM -6:00 PM
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Author:
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Daniel Smith, Jr., South Carolina State University
803-536-7162, dsmith@scsu.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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None
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Abstract:
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Student difficulties in solving kinematics problems are often attributed to students' inability to choose the correct equation, or to weak skills in algebra. Evidence is presented from a calculus-based physics class, however, that students fail to solve problems because they lack a conceptual understanding of the problem, as determined by their ability to relate the problem data to a diagram. The limited roles that--choosing the right equation,-- and weak algebra skills play in problem solving is further explored by having students solve problems graphically by using interactive software designed especially for one-dimensional kinematics problems.
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Footnotes:
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