PHYSICS PROBLEM SOLVING

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Figure 3-3. Group 4D Prototype Episode.
The flowcharting developed much like the episode coding. It took several
attempts over many days to determine if 4A, 4B, 4C, and 4D had a self-consistent
argument pattern, and if so to draw a prototype flowchart. After learning how to do this,
the remaining ten groups were analyzed in just several hours of work. Although a
group’s prototype episode will not be found verbatim in any of the group’s episodes, bits
of it are in each. The prototype attempts to answer the question, “On the average, what
does this group do?”