Archive | October 24, 2011
Day 32: Inertial Misconceptions
This picture is a student’s free-body diagram for a ball rising in the air after it was tossed.
Students are having a hard time shaking their “force in the direction of motion” intuition despite plenty of examples to the contrary.
WWBFD? (What Would Brian Frank Do?)
PS: The title of this post can be interpreted two different ways. Do you get it?