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Concept Inventories for Shape Memory Alloys and Piezoelectric Materials. Jeff Froyd, Rita Caso, Dimitris Lagoudas Texas A&M University. Signals and Systems Concept Inventory Sample Question.
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Concept Inventories for Shape Memory Alloys and Piezoelectric Materials Jeff Froyd, Rita Caso, Dimitris Lagoudas Texas A&M University
Hestenes, Wells and Swackhamer, The Physics Teacher30, 141 (1992); Revised edition available at http://modeling.la.asu.edu/R&E/Research.html
Andrew Heckler, Assistant Dean, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Ohio State University
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