Details of Research

Details of Research

• Context of the study
  Engineering Physics Class at UMD (3 semester calc-based course)
  • 3 hours/week of lectures
  • 2 hours/week of lab
  • 1 hour/week of traditional recitation or 1 hour/week of McDermott style tutorials
• Methods of Investigation
  • Asked exam problems in:
    • Optics (3rd semester)
    • Thermodynamics (2nd semester)

Traditional Recitation

Tutorial

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• both classes had 2 hour lab and 3 hours of discussion
• Heat transfer problem asked in 2nd semester calculus-based physics class
• Optics problem asked in 3rd semester calculus-based physics class