A project aimed at decreasing the number of students who quit before ending the first school year is described in detail The target students are low achieving pupils of a vocational school, the project involves not only physics but also mathematics, […]
This article underlines the importance of being aware of heuristic abilities to be used in solving problems of Physics, suggests a reasoned inventory of these and proposes two strategies aimed at strengthening specific heuristic abilities. […]
Bernoulli?s principle is being misunderstood and consequently misused. This paper clarifies the issues involved, hypotheses as to how this unfortunate situation has arisen, provides sound explanations for many everyday phenomena involving moving air, and makes associated recommendations for teaching the effects of moving fluids. […]