Assessment of difficulties of some conceptual areas from electricity and magnetism using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1143-1148

  Planinic, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

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EID: 33845796550     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.2366733     Document Type: Article

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