The Role of Experiment in Physics Education

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Abstract

This presentation draws on the ways in which physics is practiced, and presents a variety of ways to use experiments in a physics classroom similar to the ways that experiments are used in physics research. Published in The Physics Teacher, Vol. 40 September 2002, PP. 351-355.

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Authors

  • Antonio H. Castro Neto

    University of Connecticut, Bridgewater State College, Rhode Island College, Saint Joseph's College, Merrimack College, Yale University, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Glastonbury High School, The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Florida State University, Keene State College, Springfield College, Columbia University, Department of Physics, Boston University