Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation
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Despite its crucial importance in physics, there are not many studies focusing on student difficulties and teaching strategies related to the (1D) wave equation in the PER literature. In order to contribute to fill this gap, we conducted a study with university students which focused on specific aspects that are crucial for understanding this equation. Our results include not only key learning difficulties and potential teaching strategies to circumvent them, but they also suggest that students can search for a deeper understanding of physics equations when prompted to do so.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 020161 |
| Journal | Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISSN | 2469-9896 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
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The authors would like to thank Paula Heron and Magdalena Kersting for their valuable comments on this paper. Thanks to Wawan Bunawan and Dewi Wulandari for their feedback on the data analysis. We also thank to the reviewers for their relevant and valuable suggestions. Muhammad Aswin Rangkuti acknowledges a Ph.D. fellowship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Indonesia.
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© 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
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