Get Real! — Physically Reasonable Values for Teaching Electrostatics

• Robert A. Morse ^[1]
  1. [1] St. Albans School

     St. Albans School

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 54, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 200-202
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Students get a sense of realistic values for physical situations from texts, but more importantly from solving problems. Therefore, problems should use realistic values for quantities to provide needed practice. Unfortunately, some problems on tests and in textbooks do not use realistic values. Physical situations in electrostatics seem to be particularly problematic.