Research on Knowledge Structure of Physics Textbook
Authors
Xue-mei Cui, Seung Kee Han, Shou Zhang
Corresponding Author
Xue-mei Cui
Available Online April 2014.
- DOI
- 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.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF 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 SP - 5 EP - 8 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceeim-14.2014.2 DO - 10.2991/iceeim-14.2014.2 ID - Cui2014/04 ER -