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Research into Student Learning:
Two dimensional kinematics
The study of two dimensional kinematics forms an integral part of teaching motion and the applications of calculus and vectors to physics. Work by our group has shown that intuitive ideas about dynamics often interfere with student reasoning about kinematics at times when students have not yet studied kinematics issues.
Links to Research Topics arranged by research topic and author
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| J.R. Thompson | Research on student understanding in physics: an example from two-dimensional kinematics | Twenty-third state wide meeting of high school physics teachers, Orono, ME, 2003 May. |
| J.R. Thompson | Discipline-based education research as a guide to teaching and learning: examples from physics. | The University of New Hampshire, Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminar, Durham, NH, 2003 May. |
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