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Balukovic, Jasmina; Slisko, Josip; Cruz, Adrián Corona – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Different "thought experiments" dominate teaching approaches to weightlessness, reducing students' opportunities for active physics learning, which should include observations, descriptions, explanations and predictions of real phenomena. Besides the controversy related to conceptual definitions of weight and weightlessness, we report…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Vicovaro, Michele – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
This is an intuitive physics study of collision events. In two experiments the participants were presented with a simulated 3D scene showing one sphere moving horizontally towards another stationary sphere. The moving sphere stopped just before colliding with the stationary one. Participants were asked to rate the positions which both spheres…
Descriptors: Physics, Experiments, Computer Simulation, Comparative Analysis