scholarly journals Student difficulties in translating between mathematical and graphical representations in introductory physics

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shih-Yin Lin ◽  
Alexandru Maries ◽  
Chandralekha Singh
Keyword(s):  
Introductory Physics ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Student Difficulties

scholarly journals Graduate Student Difficulties on Electrostatics Topics -- Conductors and Insulators

10.37906/r1 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiaoyi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Mathematical Formulation ◽  
Introductory Physics ◽  
First Year ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Physics Students ◽  
Student Difficulties ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Upper Level

A lack of conceptual understanding of electrostatics principles, especially in the context of conductors and insulators, has been observed among a large number of introductory physics students as well as upper-level physics students. This work aims to explore graduate students’ misconceptions on these topics, particularly on how charges are distributed on conductors and insulators in various scenarios. Four first-year physics graduate students were selected to participate in think aloud interviews, where they were given a set of questions related to basic concepts of conductors and insulators, and asked to explain their thought processes as detailed as possible. The result of the four interviews are categorized by the test questions, which discusses the misconceptions that were demonstrated throughout the interviews, along with the interviewees’ reasoning behind these misconceptions. Despite that the interviewees have taken the introductory and advanced electricity and magnetism courses, a number of misconceptions still prevail in their conceptual understanding related to conductors and insulators. One possible explanation is the discontinuity between their knowledge of mathematical formulation and physical understanding of the concept, thus it is recommended that instructors should enforce students to review the advanced theory in the context of physical situations.

Assessing students' ability to solve introductory physics problems using integrals in symbolic and graphical representations

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelam Khan ◽  
Dehui Hu ◽  
Dong-Hai Nguyen ◽  
N. Sanjay Rebello ◽  
N. Sanjay Rebello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Introductory Physics ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Physics Problems

Student difficulties with graphical representations of negative values of velocity

1989 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 254-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred M. Goldberg ◽  
John H. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Student Difficulties

scholarly journals Graduate Student Difficulties on Electrostatics Topics -- Conductors and Insulators

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiaoyi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Mathematical Formulation ◽  
Introductory Physics ◽  
First Year ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Physics Students ◽  
Student Difficulties ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Upper Level

A lack of conceptual understanding of electrostatics principles, especially in the context of conductors and insulators, has been observed among a large number of introductory physics students as well as upper-level physics students. This work aims to explore graduate students’ misconceptions on these topics, particularly on how charges are distributed on conductors and insulators in various scenarios. Four first-year physics graduate students were selected to participate in think aloud interviews, where they were given a set of questions related to basic concepts of conductors and insulators, and asked to explain their thought processes as detailed as possible. The result of the four interviews are categorized by the test questions, which discusses the misconceptions that were demonstrated throughout the interviews, along with the interviewees’ reasoning behind these misconceptions. Despite that the interviewees have taken the introductory and advanced electricity and magnetism courses, a number of misconceptions still prevail in their conceptual understanding related to conductors and insulators. One possible explanation is the discontinuity between their knowledge of mathematical formulation and physical understanding of the concept, thus it is recommended that instructors should enforce students to review the advanced theory in the context of physical situations.

scholarly journals Student difficulties regarding symbolic and graphical representations of vector fields

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurens Bollen ◽  
Paul van Kampen ◽  
Charles Baily ◽  
Mossy Kelly ◽  
Mieke De Cock
Keyword(s):  
Vector Fields ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Student Difficulties

Visualization of Enneper’s surface by line graphics

Filomat ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Velickovic
Keyword(s):  
Minimal Surface ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Lines Of Curvature ◽  
Geodesic Lines

Here we study Enneper?s minimal surface and some of its properties. We compute and visualize the lines of self-intersection, lines of intersections with planes, lines of curvature, asymptotic and geodesic lines of Enneper?s surface. For the graphical representations of all the results we use our own software for line graphics.

Proof Theory of the Cut Rule

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. B. Cockett ◽  
R. A. G. Seely
Keyword(s):  
Proof Theory ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Basic Component ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Basic Logic ◽  
Cut Rule ◽  
Structural Rules ◽  
The One ◽  
Categorical Semantics

This chapter describes the categorical proof theory of the cut rule, a very basic component of any sequent-style presentation of a logic, assuming a minimum of structural rules and connectives, in fact, starting with none. It is shown how logical features can be added to this basic logic in a modular fashion, at each stage showing the appropriate corresponding categorical semantics of the proof theory, starting with multicategories, and moving to linearly distributive categories and *-autonomous categories. A key tool is the use of graphical representations of proofs (“proof circuits”) to represent formal derivations in these logics. This is a powerful symbolism, which on the one hand is a formal mathematical language, but crucially, at the same time, has an intuitive graphical representation.

Reducing misperceptions through news stories with data visualization: The role of readers’ prior knowledge and prior beliefs

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110287
Author(s):  
Paul Mena
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Prior Beliefs ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Issue Involvement

Amid the global discussion on ways to fight misinformation, journalists have been writing stories with graphical representations of data to expose misperceptions and provide readers with more accurate information. Employing an experimental design, this study explored to what extent news stories correcting misperceptions are effective in reducing them when the stories include data visualization and how influential readers’ prior beliefs, issue involvement and prior knowledge may be in that context. The study found that the presence of data visualization in news articles correcting misperceptions significantly enhanced the reduction of misperceptions among news readers with less than average prior knowledge about an issue. In addition, it was found that prior beliefs had a significant effect on news readers’ misperceptions regardless of the presence or absence of data visualization. In this way, this research offers some support for the notion that data visualization may be useful to decrease misperceptions under certain circumstances.

Scientific Inquiry in Introductory Physics

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Carl J. Wenning ◽  
Rebecca E. Vieyra
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Introductory Physics
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