{"id":391005,"date":"2017-03-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=fc516ba998a06578b708eb4661a4728b"},"modified":"2017-03-30T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:00:00","slug":"developing-a-graphical-tool-for-students-to-understand-air-resistance-and-free-fall-when-heavierobjects-do-fall-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=391005","title":{"rendered":"Developing a graphical tool for students to understand air resistance and free fall: when heavier\r\nobjects do fall faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many students find it difficult to apply certain physics concepts to their daily lives. This is<br \/>\nespecially true when they perceive a principle taught in physics class as being in conflict with<br \/>\ntheir experience. An important instance of this occurs when students are instructed to ignore the<br \/>\neffect of air resistance when solving kinematics problems. To a student, this assumption disconnects<br \/>\nfrom their everyday experience. Mathematically, ignoring the effect of air resistance is crucial,<br \/>\nhowever, since it renders such problems tractable. However, this step is rarely, if ever, provided<br \/>\nwith justification in undergraduate texts, leading students to believe that what they are taught<br \/>\ndoes not apply to their everyday experience. Taking the additional step of clarifying when it is<br \/>\nreasonable to ignore air resistance makes students\u2019 reconciliation of their everyday experiences<br \/>\nwith the physics principle of free fall more likely. In this paper we develop a graphical tool<br \/>\nintended to make t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many students find it difficult to apply certain physics concepts to their daily lives. This is<br \/>\nespecially true when they perceive a principle taught in physics class as being in conflict with<br \/>\ntheir experience. An important instance of this occurs wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}