Bakhrul Rizky Kurniawan, Sahal Fawaiz, Irma Rahmawati, Cahyani Intan Ramadani
Force and interactions are important content for students in Physics education. Several representations are used to describe the interaction of force. Various kinds of representations of forces and their interactions raise pros and cons, for example, in physics textbooks in Indonesia. We used content analysis on five physics books approved by the Indonesian Ministry of Education. The results show that the representations used are abstract and real representations, with Two-attached-forces as the most often founded. The representation does not explicitly mention interaction and the action-reaction force. Several books decompose force, but just one has distinguished between the force and the component. Advice to physics textbook authors to pay sufficient attention to representations that facilitate a comprehensive understanding of Newton’s Laws. © 2024 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang, Semarang 5 Street, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Junior High School, 4 Malang, Veteran 37 Street, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Tadris Fisika, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Keguruan, Universitas Islam Negeri Antasari Banjarmasin, Jenderal Ahmad Yani 4,5 Street, Banjarmasin, 70235, Indonesia