Laboratory-tutorial activities for teaching probability

We report on the development of students’ ideas of probability and probability density in a University of Maine laboratory-based general education physics course called Intuitive Quantum Physics. Students in the course are generally math phobic with unfavorable expectations about the nature of physi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michael C. Wittmann, Jeffrey T. Morgan, Roger E. Feeley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2006-08-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.2.020104