Upper-division students’ difficulties with Ampère’s law

This study presents and interprets some conceptual difficulties junior-level physics students experience with Ampère’s law. We present both quantitative data, based on students’ written responses to conceptual questions, and qualitative data, based on interviews of students solving Ampère’s law prob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Colin S. Wallace, Stephanie V. Chasteen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2010-09-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020115