The MWCS is the most important test to date that has been designed to evaluate students’ understanding of four main topics in mechanical waves. It encompasses some concepts surrounding propagation, superposition, reflection, and standing waves within 22 multiple choice items.
data(MWCS)A data frame with 497 observations on the following 22 MWCS multiple choice items.
MWCS1A character of the MWCS item number 1.
MWCS2A character of the MWCS item number 2.
MWCS3A character of the MWCS item number 3.
MWCS4A character of the MWCS item number 4.
MWCS5A character of the MWCS item number 5.
MWCS6A character of the MWCS item number 6.
MWCS7A character of the MWCS item number 7.
MWCS8A character of the MWCS item number 8.
MWCS9A character of the MWCS item number 9.
MWCS10A character of the MWCS item number 10.
MWCS11A character of the MWCS item number 11.
MWCS12A character of the MWCS item number 12.
MWCS13A character of the MWCS item number 13.
MWCS14A character of the MWCS item number 14.
MWCS15A character of the MWCS item number 15.
MWCS16A character of the MWCS item number 16.
MWCS17A character of the MWCS item number 17.
MWCS18A character of the MWCS item number 18.
MWCS19A character of the MWCS item number 19.
MWCS20A character of the MWCS item number 20.
MWCS21A character of the MWCS item number 21.
MWCS22A character of the MWCS item number 22.
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