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Fourth-year students in eight classes were tested over a three-year period to determine the ease or difficulty with which they learned the conservation principle. A major focus was on ideas they held about the nature of energy before beginning the course. Results and implications for physics instruction are presented.
Physics Education: Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 165-170
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![]() <a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=2911">Solomon, Joan. "Teaching the conservation of energy." Phys. Educ. 20, no. 4, (July 1, 1985): 165-170.</a>
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