Textbooks play a fundamental role in teaching and learning in school science classrooms. In this paper, we investigate the presentation of the nature of the electromagnetic field in a dozen of the world’s most popular ...

We investigate learning difficulties among second-year students in electromagnetism courses when they apply Amp`ere-Maxwell’s law. Using phenomenography, we analyzed written answers from 65 undergraduate physics students ...

The question of the sources of electric and magnetic fields and their causes has been discussed extensively in the literature over the last decades. In this article, we approach this problem from the unified treatment of ...