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Result: 
 
Correct Newtonian answer: (D): 24%.Correct Aristotelian answer
 (E or C):
 from 264 Students: 80%.
 
 
 
 
A general remark: The result for correct Newtonian answers (= N in%) was based on the total population of 363 students.The result for correct Aristotelian answers (for this and all following items) was based on a population of (363 minus N) students.
 Comment:
 
 
The result is clear. When the velocity is increasing, the vast majority of our students argue for an increasing force.This is called the ̉Aristotelian view". 
 
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