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Re: PER - Free Body Diagrams - Addenda



In my post "Re: PER - FREE BODY DIAGRAMS" of 28 Jul 2003 (Hake 2003),
I gave some references related to Free Body Diagrams due to Mary
Hing-Hickman, myself, and Aaron Titus [who was aware of Oberem
(1996)]: Court (1993, 1999a,b), Fisher (1999), Hake (1998), Lane
(1993a,b), Mathot (1993), Newburgh (1994), Oberem (1996), and
Whiteley (1994, 1995b).

Mary Hing-Hickman has informed me that she has found three more
references: Puri (1996), Whiteley (1995a, 1996), all published in
"Physics Education" <http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/PhysEd>, a
publication of the British "Institute of Physics." Abstracts are
freely available online. Full articles are free to non-subscribers
only for the first 30 days after publication.

"Using free body diagrams as a diagnostic instrument," as published
in "Physics Education" by the late Peter Whiteley (1996), is
evidently the same as the paper Whiteley (1995b) that he submitted to
"The Physics Teacher."

Although I haven't read Puri (1996), I am skeptical (Hake 1998) of
his apparent view that drawing free-body diagrams is an art.

I wonder if any listers can suggest other references relevant to Free
Body Diagrams?


Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>


REFERENCES
Court, J.E. 1993. "Free-Body Diagrams," Phys. Teach. 31(2): 104-108.

Court, J.E. 1999a. "Free-Body Diagrams Revisited - I," Phys. Teach.
37(7): 427-433.

Court, J.E. 1999b. "Free-Body Diagrams Revisited - II," Phys. Teach.
37(8): 490-495.

Fisher, K. 1999. "Exercises in drawing and utilizing free-body
diagrams," Phys Teach. 37(7): 434-435: "A very useful aid to sorting
out the relevant forces in a mechanics problem is the ON/BY table,
which I have recently begun to require as part of solution to tests.
The idea for this table came from perusing one of the "Socratic
Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs." That lab was probably Hake (1998).
Sect. IC. "How to Draw a Force Vector."

Hake, R.R. 1998. SDI Lab #1, "Newton's First and Third Laws"; online
at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>. See, especially Sections:
IC. "How to Draw a Force Vector,"
ID. "How to Determine the Newton's-Third-Law Action-Reaction Pair,"
II. "Operational Definitions,"
III. "Forces Exerted on a Disk by Your Hand."

Hake, R.R. 2003. "Re: PER - FREE BODY DIAGRAMS" post of
28 Jul 2003 16:53:02-0700 to AP-Physics, Phys-L, PhyLrnR, and
Physhare; online at
<http://lists.nau.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0307&L=phys-l&O=D&P=27317>.

Lane, B. 1993a. "Why Can't Physicists Draw FBD's?" Phys. Teach. 31(4): 216-217.

Lane, B. 1993b. "Response to Mathot," Letter to the editor, Phys.
Teach. 31 (7): 390.

Mathot, L.G. 1993. "Free Body Diagrams," Letter to the editor
regarding Lane (1993a). Phys. Teach. 31 (7): 390.

Newburgh, R. 1994. "Force Diagrams: How and Why?" Phys. Teach. 32 (6): 352.

Oberem, G. 1996. "FreeBody" a program sold by Physics Academic
Software <http://webassign.net/pasnew/freebody/freebody.html> that
"utilizes artificial intelligence to teach students to construct
free-body diagrams. . . [and]. . . was developed in the Physics
Education Group at the University of Washington." See also the
discussion of "Freebody" at
<http://physics.csusm.edu/physics/faculty/oberem/personal/oberem.html>.

Puri, A. 1996. "The Art of Free-body Diagrams," Phys. Educ. 31(3):
155-157 1996; online at <http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0031-9120/31/3>.
[The full article is freely available only to "Physics Education"
subscribers, but the abstract can be seen by non-subscribers.]

Sperry, W. 1994. "Placing the Forces on Free-Body Diagrams," Phys.
Teach. 32 (6): 353.

Whiteley, P. 1994. "What 'Holds Up' the Moon?" Phys Teach. 32(6):
348-349. For the SDI counterpart see Hake (1998b), Section IIC "The
Moon."

Whiteley, P. 1995a. "Students' Difficulties with the Force(s) Acting
on the Moon," Phys. Educ. 30(1): 31-33; online at
<http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0031-9120/30/1>. [The full article is
freely available only to "Physics Education" subscribers, but the
abstract can be seen by non-subscribers.]

Whiteley, P. 1995b. "Using Free Body Diagrams as a Diagnostic
Instrument," submitted to Phys. Teach. See also Whiteley (1994).

Whiteley, P. 1996. "Using free body diagrams as a diagnostic
instrument," Phys. Educ. 31(5): 309-313; online at
<http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0031-9120/31/5>. [The full article is
freely available only to "Physics Education" subscribers, but the
abstract can be seen by non-subscribers.]