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RESEARCH PAPER
Atwood’s Machine and Electromagnetic Induction: A Real Quantitative Experiment to Analyze Students’ Ways of Reasoning
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Secondary School “G.B. Quadri”, Vicenza, ITALY
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Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, ITALY
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Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Cosenza, ITALY
Publication date: 2022-01-17
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2022;18(2):em2077
KEYWORDS
electromagnetic inductionFaraday-Neumann-Lenz lawmagnetic field linesflux ofmagnetic fieldreal-time lab
ABSTRACT
We report a research-based proposal on electromagnetic induction within the theoretical
framework of the Model of Educational Reconstruction. The proposal is based on a sequence of
inquiry-based experimental activities centered on hands-on materials and Real-Time quantitative
experiments, through which students explore the phenomenology of electromagnetic induction.
The sequence was planned to address Faraday-Neumann-Lenz law analyzing the involved physics
quantities and constructing quantitative relationships between them. Our hypothesis was based
on the idea that phenomenological explorations performed through online sensors promote a
functional understanding of electromagnetic induction and help students to face the conceptual
knots highlighted by international literature about these phenomena.
The educational sequence was proposed to a sample of 87 high school students with the aim of
analyzing the evolution of the educational processes employing a set of inquiry-based tutorials.
The qualitative analysis of students’ answers demonstrates that students increased their
knowledges in the analysis of electromagnetic induction phenomena recognizing the
fundamental role of time-variation of the magnetic field flux in the Faraday-Neumann-Lenz law.
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