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Understanding and affecting student reasoning about sound waves

Michael Wittmann Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, 5709 Bennett Hall, Orono, ME, 04469-5709, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Richard N. Steinberg Department of Physics, City College of New York
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Edward F. Redish Department of Physics, University of Maryland, USA
Pages 991-1013 | Published online: 26 Nov 2010

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