Journal article
An Experiment on Experiments in a Senior Laboratory
American journal of physics, v 40(1), pp 28-32
Jan 1972
Abstract
Two experiments were introduced in our senior modern physics laboratory to acquaint students with methods of doing complete experiments. In the “design” experiments, students individually chose, planned, designed, and listed all the apparatus, methods, and people required for a real experiment that might take several years to do. In the “ingenuity” experiments, students individually chose, planned, acquired, built, and assembled the apparatus for a relatively simple experiment and analyzed their measurements. We tested, by special laboratory examinations and other methods, if the half-class of students who had done these experiments were better than the half-class that had not.
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Details
- Title
- An Experiment on Experiments in a Senior Laboratory
- Creators
- Leonard Finegold - University of Colorado BoulderCharles L. Hartley - University of Colorado Boulder
- Publication Details
- American journal of physics, v 40(1), pp 28-32
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1972L483400005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0012732981
- Other Identifier
- 991021862285504721