Student's use of symmetry with Gauss's Law

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 883, Issue , 2007, Pages 173-176

  Traxler, Adrienne L ^a   Black, Katrina E ^b   Thompson, John R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatics; Epistemic frames; Epistemic games; Gauss's Law; Physics education research; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958014656     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2508720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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