Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to reveal the status of high school students and physics
teacher candidates to establish the relationship between simple harmonic motion and
uniform circular motion. The study group of the study is composed of 33 high school
students from 12th grade and 52 physics teacher candidates who have taken general
physics courses. In line with the purpose of the study, a measurement tool that contains
eight open-ended and drawing questions was developed. The data obtained from the
measurement tool were analyzed by document analysis. In the evaluation of the
answers, rubric which is composed of correct answer, partially correct answer, correctwrong
answer, wrong answer and unanswered categories were used. The obtained data
showed that answers of students and teacher candidates mostly gathered in wrong
answer category. The fact that the collection of answers mostly in wrong answer
category reveals that students and teacher candidates have problems in establishing a
relationship between simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion.
