Research on Knowledge Structure of Physics Textbook

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10.2991/iceeim-14.2014.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

physics textbook; physics terminology; physics knowledge network; power law

Abstract

A Physics textbook is composed of numerous physics terminologies which are organized to form new concepts of physics. For the purpose of understanding the global organization of the science-knowledge system in science textbooks, we analyzed the binary network of science textbooks, where the pair appearance of two science terminologies is taken as the link between two nodes. By analyzing the characteristics of binary network of the textbook, we can be understood the structure characteristics of physics knowledge in the textbook. We found that a physics knowledge network possesses the characteristics of complex network: 1) short mean distance between terminologies; 2) power law degree distribution; 3) hierarchical modular structure.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Xue-mei Cui
AU  - Seung Kee Han
AU  - Shou Zhang
PY  - 2014/04
DA  - 2014/04
TI  - Research on Knowledge Structure of Physics Textbook
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on e-Education, e-Business and Information Management
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 8
SN  - 1951-6851
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