Arrows as anchors: An analysis of the material features of electric field vector arrows

Representations in physics possess both physical and conceptual aspects that are fundamentally intertwined and can interact to support or hinder sense making and computation. We use distributed cognition and the theory of conceptual blending with material anchors to interpret the roles of conceptual...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Elizabeth Gire, Edward Price
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-08-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.10.020112