At Odds Reconciling Experimental and Theoretical Results in High School Physics

Abstract

For this experiment, students are divided into 2 groups and presented with a static equilibrium forcebalance problem to solve. One group works entirely experimentally and the other group theoretically, using Newton's laws. The groups present their seemingly dissimilar results and must reconcile them through discussion.

Keywords:

• high school physics
• modeling
• Newton's laws
• static equilibrium