Physics Models Help Students Identify Experimental Errors

• Daniel Crowe ^[1]
  1. [1] Academies of Loudoun, Leesburg, VA
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 62, Nº. 7, 2024, págs. 562-563
• Idioma: inglés
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  • After years of reading my students’ inadequate descriptions of sources of error, I decided to do something about it. I was tired of the infamous “human error,” and the perhaps true, but inappropriate, “I might have made a mistake during the calculations.” For the past several years, I have been explicitly teaching my students about physics models and their relationship to sources of experimental errors. It has become a core element of my AP Physics C: Mechanics course.