Calculation of vector components: A tutorial worksheet to help students develop a conceptual framework

When we administered our Test of Understanding of Vectors (TUV) to students who were finishing a physics university remedial course (that covers subjects of a traditional high school physics course), we observed that they have considerable difficulties in calculating the x-component of a vector when...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pablo Barniol, Genaro Zavala
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Física
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172015000300501&lng=en&tlng=en