Electricity and Magnetism | Energy and Thermal Physics

Kitset of the main ideas in the topic Electricity and Energy

Teaching Guidance for 14-16 Supporting Physics Teaching

Electricity and Energy kitset
Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many students see circuit behaviour as a sequence of causes and effects, rather than seeing the whole circuit as an interacting system

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Some students may associate magnetism with gravity (seeing one as the cause of the other), and/or think that both require the presence of air

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many students are unable to make correction predictions about the potential difference across each resistor in a series circuit given the battery's potential difference and the resistance of the resistors

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