Today I continue to put down the student misconceptions on forces and motion as reported from physics education research. Every physics teacher will encounter the misconceptions every time when they teach force and motion. It is inevitable because of the “mismatch” of what was taught with the daily life experience. However, there is actually noContinue reading “Student misconceptions on forces and motion”
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Student misconceptions on kinematics
In this post, I put down the student misconceptions on kinematics that I came across from reading physics education research (PER) papers that have been published. Kinematics means the study of motion. So, this post will focus on student difficulties on displacement, velocity, speed, and acceleration. Definitions Before I discuss what I learned from theContinue reading “Student misconceptions on kinematics”
Velocity and Acceleration
Students tend to confuse velocity with acceleration. This confusion has been documented by many physics educators (just a simple search of “student understanding of velocity, acceleration” on Google Scholar will do). This mixing of ideas follows students from high school to undergraduate. One may think that as technological advances, the teachers are well-equipped with modernContinue reading “Velocity and Acceleration”
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