Systematic study of student understanding of the relationships between the directions of force, velocity, and acceleration in one dimension

We developed an instrument to systematically investigate student conceptual understanding of the relationships between the directions of net force, velocity, and acceleration in one dimension and report on data collected on the final version of the instrument from over 650 students. Unlike previous...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rebecca Rosenblatt, Andrew F. Heckler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2011-11-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.7.020112