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Orlando Organista

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Velocities: mean, average and instantaneous in uniform accelerated motion, some pedagogical comments

The relation among instantaneous, mean and average velocities in one-dimensional motion with constant acceleration is studied. It was shown that the instant velocity evaluated in the time $t_{p}=\left(t_2+t_1\right)/2$ is similar to the mean and average velocities evaluated between the times $t_1$ and $t_2$. The reason for relations illustrated before were shown in detail. Also, the results obtained were used to propose a pedagogical strategy in order to study the one-dimensional motion with constant acceleration as a natural extension of one-dimensional motion with constant velocity.

physics.ed-ph

Semi-quantitative diagram about temporal evolution in basic physics learning: a study with engineering students

We show a new semi-quantitative technique of analysis about of temporal evolution of learning of basic physics concepts. In this technique we arrange a geometric diagram with the score and the homogeneity (H-S), in this diagram we have a quantitative and qualitative information about the learning of students and the effectiveness instruction. We applied this technique to study the temporal evolution of the graphical interpretation of motion in one dimension through tutorials in a introductory course physics with 20 students of engineering at the Universidad Central de Bogotá Colombia for a period of 6 weeks. We found in the general diagram that (Smax,Hmax)=(0.75,0.75).

physics.ed-ph