Efecto de las simulaciones interactivas sobre las concepciones de los alumnos en relación con el movimiento armónico simple

Zusammenfassung

Many university students have misconceptions about simple harmonic movement (HSM). It has been observed that they have a linear vision that computer simulations have been unable to shift, despite helping them to understand physical concepts. Among those students investigated, there occur three stages in the conceptualization of simple harmonic movement: a first, �premature� stage in which they still have not grasped the meaning of the magnitudes that describe the phenomenon (period, amplitude�), and their response is guided by intuition; a second �linear� stage in which, although these magnitudes are used properly, they reason as if the movement was uniform; and a third �sinusoidal� stage that is coherent with established physical knowledge.