Probing students’ understanding of some conceptual themes in general relativity

This work is an attempt to see how physics undergraduates view the basic ideas of general relativity when they are exposed to the topic in a standard introductory course. Since the subject is conceptually and technically difficult, we adopted a “case studies” approach, focusing in depth on about six...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Atanu Bandyopadhyay, Arvind Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2010-07-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020104