This page links to worksheets for use in lecture created by the University of Maryland's Physics Education Research Group.

• Mechanics
  1. A new mistake-catching strategy: The case of motion graphs
  2. What if something just doesn’t make sense: Acceleration at the peak
  3. More on refining intuition: The case of Newton’s 3rd law
  4. Why is momentum conserved in collisions?
  5. The limits of reconciliation: Energy conservation
  6. Rolling and kinetic energy

• Heat and Temperature
  7. Heat & temperature: More reconciling

• Oscillations and Waves
  8. Seeking concsistency: Harmonic oscillation

• Electricity & Magnetism
  9. Making a model: Thinking about electric force
  10. Representation as communication: Fields
  11. Electrostatic potential and analogies

• Optics
  12. Working out what a model implies: Images

Maintained by University of Maryland PERG
Comments and questions may be directed to E. F. Redish
Last modified January 17, 2005