Intuitive ontologies for energy in physics

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1413, Issue , 2012, Pages 343-346

  Scherr, Rachel E ^a   Close, Hunter G ^b   McKagan, Sarah B ^a  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

embodied cognition; energy; metaphor; ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857476849     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3680065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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