Justin Landay

Apr 7, 2023 | link.aps.org | Gary White |Columbian College |Tiffany-Rose Sikorski |Justin Landay

Abstract Limiting case analysis (LCA) is important to practicing physicists. Yet, there is little concrete guidance for physics educators, and a lack of consensus in the research community about how to help students learn, and learn from, limiting case analysis. In this study, we first review existing literature to find commonalities and variations in how instructors encourage and assess students’ limiting case analysis and to highlight how it has been used by practicing physicists.