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

Some students hold a 'consumer-source' model of the simple circuit

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Few students are able to use the idea of potential to explain or predict observations about simple circuits

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RESEARCH REVIEW Electricity and Magnetism

Many students are slow to adopt the idea of magnetic poles and only gradually come to see magnetic effects in terms of attraction of unlike poles and repulsion of like poles

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