Electricity and Magnetism, The Mathematical Theory.

Report on the State of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: S. NEWCOMB, Mathematics; R. S. WOODWARD, Mechanies; E. C. PICKERING. Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THURSTON, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; J. LE CONTE, Geology; W. M. DAVIS, Physiography; 0. C. MARSH, Paleontology; W. K. BRooKs, C. HART MERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. SCUDDER, Entomology; C. E. BESSEY, N. L. BRITTON, Botany; HENRY F. OSBORN, General Biology; C. ...

Electricity and Magnetism

Restructuring the introductory electricity and magnetism course

ION The concept of field is central to electricity and magnetism. In the traditional introductory course this concept is not used during large sections of the course, including the sections dealing with electric circuits and Faraday’s law. Consequently, the field concept does not appear central to students, who are kept busy plugging numbers into formulas for equivalent resistance and mutual in...

Evaluating an electricity and magnetism assessment tool: Brief electricity and magnetism assessment

The Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment BEMA , developed by Chabay and Sherwood, was designed to assess student understanding of basic electricity and magnetism concepts covered in college-level calculus-based introductory physics courses. To evaluate the reliability and discriminatory power of this assessment tool, we performed statistical tests focusing both on item analyses item diffi...

Hands- and Minds-on Electricity and Magnetism

The paper describes several interesting school physics experiments from the area of electricity and magnetism found in foreign journals. These experiments may serve as an inspiration for development of similar school physics experiments or modified versions of experiments and for quantitative measurements on such experiments (which are often used just as qualitative experiments in our school pr...