Students' understanding and application of the area under the curve concept in physics problems

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nguyen, Dong Hai ^a   Rebello, N Sanjay ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79961057857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.7.010112     Document Type: Article

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