A cross-college age study about physics students' conceptions of force in pre-service training for high school teachers

Physics Education

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 227-236

  Trumper, Ricardo ^a   Gorsky, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Science and Reasoning   (Israel)

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EID: 60849095360     PISSN: 00319120     EISSN: 13616552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9120/31/4/021     Document Type: Article

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