Investigating students' mental models about the quantization of light, energy, and angular momentum

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2014-11-18

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Didiş, Nilufer
Eryılmaz, Ali
Erkoç, Şahin

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This paper is the first part of a multiphase study examining students' mental models about the quantization of physical observables-light, energy, and angular momentum. Thirty-one second-year physics and physics education college students who were taking a modern physics course participated in the study. The qualitative analysis of data revealed six variations in students' mental models about the quantization of physical observables: scientific model, primitive scientific model, shredding model, alternating model, integrative model, and evolution model. These models were determined to be context dependent. In addition, some students are in a mixed-model state where they use multiple mental models in explaining a phenomenon and use these models inconsistently.

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Physics, Conceptual change, Quantum-mechanics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42037

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PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH

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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevstper.10.020127

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Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Article

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N. Didiş, A. Eryılmaz, and Ş. Erkoç, “Investigating students’ mental models about the quantization of light, energy, and angular momentum,” PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH, pp. 0–0, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42037.