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Students Do Not Think Physics Is “Relevant.” What Can We Do About It? H. R. Crane Citation: American Journal of Physics 36, 1137 (1968); doi: 10.1119/1.1974380 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1974380 View Table of Contents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/36/12?ver=pdfcov Published by the American Association of Physics Teachers Articles you may be interested in What do teachers think about noise in the classroom? J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 135, 2379 (2014); 10.1121/1.4877855 What do we know about phase transition processes relevant to atmospheric aerosols? AIP Conf. Proc. 534, 561 (2000); 10.1063/1.1361929 What Jamaican students think about physics and how we are adapting AIP Conf. Proc. 399, 827 (1997); 10.1063/1.53184 Demonstrations vs films: What do students think? Phys. Teach. 14, 300 (1976); 10.1119/1.2339390 Misconceptions in Mathematics and Physics. What Shall We Do About Them? Am. J. Phys. 12, 75 (1944); 10.1119/1.1990559 This article is copyrighted as indicated in the article. Reuse of AAPT content is subject to the terms at: http://scitation.aip.org/termsconditions. Downloaded to IP: 138.251.14.35 On: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:17:44

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Students Do Not Think Physics Is “Relevant.” What Can We Do About It?H. R. Crane Citation: American Journal of Physics 36, 1137 (1968); doi: 10.1119/1.1974380 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1974380 View Table of Contents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/36/12?ver=pdfcov Published by the American Association of Physics Teachers Articles you may be interested in What do teachers think about noise in the classroom? J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 135, 2379 (2014); 10.1121/1.4877855 What do we know about phase transition processes relevant to atmospheric aerosols? AIP Conf. Proc. 534, 561 (2000); 10.1063/1.1361929 What Jamaican students think about physics and how we are adapting AIP Conf. Proc. 399, 827 (1997); 10.1063/1.53184 Demonstrations vs films: What do students think? Phys. Teach. 14, 300 (1976); 10.1119/1.2339390 Misconceptions in Mathematics and Physics. What Shall We Do About Them? Am. J. Phys. 12, 75 (1944); 10.1119/1.1990559

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