From Electromagnetism to Electrodynamics : Ampère ’ s Demonstration of the Interaction between Current Carrying Wires (original) (raw)

Alternative Teaching Methods in Electricity and Magnetism

International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research

Electricity and magnetism are known as an important topics in the physics and scientific curriculum at all levels, including elementary, secondary, and tertiary. Children can learn more about electricity and magnetism via discussion and activities. Electricity and magnetism also have applications in many aspects of our daily life as one of the fundamental areas and key concerns in physics. Traditional teaching methods are considered ineffective. Pupils who were taught using traditional methods or approaches, according to Jelicic et al. (2017), have a poor comprehension of basic electromagnetic principles and are often resistant to teachers' instruction and our education now is dependent on technology. In this review, the different alternative teaching methods used and preferred by other schools are being examined and its effect in teaching Electricity and Magnetism. The included studies in this literature review proved that the preferred teaching method to motivate and appreciat...

Primary Pupils Explore the Relationship Betweenmagnetic Fields and Electricity

2012

The presence of conceptual knots concerning electromagnetic induction in secondary school students’ ideas (Stefanel, 2008), underline the need to create vertical curricula based on a continuum learning process starting from the phenomenology of electromagnetic interactions earlier with the first exploration of the world. The connection between scientific knowledge and everyday knowledge is one of the main problems of learning in the scientific field (Pfundt & Duit, 1993). Research in learning processes shown how knowledge requires a personal involvement and analysis of the reference interpretative elements and in particular how informal learning plays an important role in building knowledge and conceptual change (Vosniadou, 2008). To ensure that students build bridges between the local vision of common sense and the global scientific interpretation, hands-on and mind-on active involvement of students is needed (McDermott, 2004). To do so informal situations in which students can exp...

Creative computer-based labwork on electricity

2005

A large series of computer-aided laboratory exercises based on the IP COACH system have been efficiently used in high-school learning. More recently, some of the labwork (particularly, on the topic of Direct Current) have been developed into creative experimental problems for university and high-school students to solve when studying Physics courses. Time-resolved measurements provided by COACH5 enabled the students to explore and explain an intriguing behaviour of filament bulbs connected into simple circuits.

Report and recommendations on multimedia materials for teaching and learning electricity and magnetism

European Journal of Physics, 2013

This paper presents the results of a peer review of multimedia materials for teaching and learning electricity and magnetism prepared as a part of the annual activities undertaken by an international group of scientists associated with Multimedia Physics in Teaching and Learning. The work promotes the use of valuable and freely accessible information technology materials for different levels of teaching, mostly higher education. The authors discuss the process of selecting resources and the rubrics used in the rating process. The reviews of high-quality learning resources are presented along with descriptions of valuable didactical features. Content: dc circuits Rating: excellent/good Level of teaching: secondary, higher

Electricity and magnetism step by step and optics step by step: optional special labs in first years of pre-service teacher training

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Introductory physics courses for future physics teachers serve various, often quite "divergent" purposes. On one hand, they should present physics at university level, using mathematical tools like integrals, differential equations, tensors etc. with sufficient degree of exactness. On the other hand, they should develop conceptual understanding, physics insight and "intuition", skills necessary for doing experiments etc. Often, the development of such conceptual understanding and necessary skills is aimed also "at university level", assuming that students know the basics from secondary schools and have some experience with at least elementary experiments. Moreover, it is often assumed that students themselves will see the link between "secondary school physics" and "university physics". However, often this is not the case and future teachers complain that there is a large gap between physics at those two stages. To help students reduce this gap we created two optional seminars: Electricity and magnetism step by step and Optics step by step. These seminars give students better understanding of physical concepts as well as some basic methodical comments for their future work with pupils. Both seminars are based on the methodology of the Heureka Project (Dvorakova 2013a). In this article we would like to present our experience with both seminars.

Electromagnetism

Springer eBooks, 2022

Undergraduate Texts in Physics (UTP) publishes authoritative texts covering topics encountered in a physics undergraduate syllabus. Each title in the series is suitable as an adopted text for undergraduate courses, typically containing practice problems, worked examples, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading. UTP titles should provide an exceptionally clear and concise treatment of a subject at undergraduate level, usually based on a successful lecture course. Core and elective subjects are considered for inclusion in UTP. UTP books will be ideal candidates for course adoption, providing lecturers with a firm basis for development of lecture series, and students with an essential reference for their studies and beyond.