Improving Students' Understanding of Waves by Plotting a Displacement-Time Graph in Class

Autor/in	Wei, Yajun
Titel	Improving Students' Understanding of Waves by Plotting a Displacement-Time Graph in Class
Quelle	In: Physics Teacher, 50 (2012) 4, S.234 (1 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-921X
DOI	10.1119/1.3694078
Schlagwörter	Physics; Science Instruction; High School Students; Secondary School Science; Graphs; Computer Simulation; Hands on Science; Textbooks; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Physik; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Grafische Darstellung; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	The topic of waves is one that many high school physics students find difficult to understand. This is especially true when using some A-level textbooks used in the U.K., where the concept of waves is introduced prior to the concept of simple harmonic oscillations. One of the challenges my students encounter is understanding the difference between displacement-time graphs and displacement-position graphs. Many students wonder why these two graphs have the same sinusoidal shape. Having the students use multimedia simulations allows them to see, in a hands-on fashion, the relationship between the two graphs. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10