Chronology | Current Month | Current Thread | Current Date |
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] | [Date Index] [Thread Index] | [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] | [Date Prev] [Date Next] |
On the contrary, there is a good literature on student
misconceptions, and any author should keep those
research results in mind when they write.
I started reading "Electric & Magnetic Interactions" of Chabay
and Sherwood. I need some help.
1) ON PAGE 208 (Section 6.2.1) THEY SAY:
Now consider a circuit consisting of our mechanical "battery"
[Van de Graaff] and a nichrome wire that has some twists and
turns in it. You know from your own experiments that such
twists and turns do not seem to affect the amount of steady-
state current, which seems odd.
WHY SHOULD IT SEEM ODD? ....