Our best juniors still struggle with Gauss's law: Characterizing their difficulties

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1289, Issue , 2010, Pages 245-248

  Pepper, Rachel E ^a   Chasteen, Stephanie V ^a   Pollock, Steven J ^a   Perkins, Katherine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

electricity and magnetism; Gausss law; physics education research; student difficulties; symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951983571     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3515212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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