Understanding of gravity
Science EducationPublished 1 July 1981
Richard Gunstone, Richard White
Citations321
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.37
SNIP2.22
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Reports results of a large-scale study that investigated the knowledge of gravity and related principles of mechanics possessed by first-year physics students (N=468) at Monash University, Australia. One conclusion is that students know a lot of physics but do not relate it to the everyday world.
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