Applied Network Science

Table 1 Key concepts appearing in students’ concept maps

From: Concept networks of students’ knowledge of relationships between physics concepts: finding key concepts and their epistemic support

	Concept		Concept		Concept
1	Electric interaction	51	Gauss’s law	83	Magnetic force
2	Electric charge	55	Ferromagnet	85	Rotational magn. field
8	Coulomb’s law	57	Magnetic interaction	86	Magn. pot. energy
14	Displacement current	59	Magnetic dipole	87	Magnetic field H (t)
15	Electric field lines	63	Magnetic moment (e)	90	Ampere’s circuital law
22	Energy conservation	66	Magnetic flux dens.	91	Magnetic field H
27	Superposition of fields	69	Magnetic flux Φ	100	Induction law
28	Electric field (e)	71	Magn. flux dens. (e)	109	Rotational electric field
33	Mechanical work	72	Electric current	113	Ampere-Maxwell law
38	Electric potential	74	Biot-Savart expr.	117	Resonance circuit
44	Electric field (t)	82	Ampere-Laplace law	120	Electromagnetic waves

Some concepts appear twice, either defined empirically (e) through experimental operationalisation or theoretically (t) through deductive rationalisation. The key concepts with numbers given in bold text are epistemically the best supported ones

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