Getting students familiar with the use of computers: Study of the falling of a body in a fluid

Physics Education

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 214-219

  Guisasola, J ^a   Barragues J I ^a   Valdes P ^b   Valdesv R ^b   Pedroso, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Higher Pedagogical Institute Enrique J Varona   (Cuba)

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EID: 0242647002     PISSN: 00319120     EISSN: 13616552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9120/34/4/308     Document Type: Article

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