The Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research (TIPERS) workbooks pose questions in styles quite different from the end-of-chapter problems that those of us of a certain age were assigned back in the days before Netscape. My own spin on TIPERS is not just to do them on paper, but to have students set up the situations in the laboratory to verify—or contradict —their paper solutions. The circuits unit is particularly conducive to creating quick-and-dirty lab setups that demonstrate the result of conceptually framed problems.
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, 244
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). This article presents a challenge of deducing the nature of the electrical connections hidden by the black box. You can also have the students create their own “mystery circuits” and present them to the class.© 2018 American Association of Physics Teachers.
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