E. Agra, J. Sattizahn, M. Mikota, S. Beilock, and S. Fischer, PERC 2016 Proceedings, 24-27.
We investigated the effect of sensorimotor (or embodied) experience on people’s understanding of the concept of center of gravity (CoG). To create an embodied experience, we…
L. Ortiz, P. Heron, and P. Shaffer, Am. J. Phys., 73 (6), 545-553 (2005).
We report on an investigation of student ability to account for static equilibrium in the simple familiar case in which an object is balanced on a frictionless pivot or fulcrum.…
A. Rouinfar, A. Madsen, T. Hoang, S. Puntambekar, and N. Rebello, PERC 2011 Proceedings, 331-334.
Research has shown that the concept of force in a pulley is learned equally well by students using physical and virtual manipulatives. We report on a study in which students enrolled…