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Result:
Correct Newtonian answer (B): 12%
Correct Aristotelian answer (E): 37%
(318 students)
Interesting answers:
(H):19%
(I): 18%
Comment:
This results demonstrates that the vast majority of our students do not understand the meaning of positive and negative velocities.
Obviously their conclusion is that if the velocity is increasing, the graph for the force must have a positive slope.
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