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Probing university students' understanding of electromotive force in electricity

Isabel Garzón, Mieke De Cock

2014enelectromotive forcephysics educationstudent understandingtransitory currents

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The goal of this study is to identify students’ difficulties with learning the concepts of electromotive force (emf) and potential difference in the context of transitory currents and resistive direct-current circuits. To investigate these difficulties, we developed a questionnaire based on an analysis of the theoretical and epistemological framework of physics, which was then administered to first-year engineering and physics students at universities in Spain, Colombia, and Belgium. The results show that student difficulties seem to be strongly linked to the absence of an analysis of the energy balance within the circuit, indicating a need for improved instructional approaches to enhance understanding of these fundamental concepts.

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