Identification of student misconception about static fluid

Abstract

This study aims to identify students' misconceptions about static fluid and to see how gender effects on misconception. The method used in this research is survey to 24 students in one of high school in Palu city. The instrument used is three tier tests of 23 numbers. The result of the analysis shows that there are still many students who have misconception with 70,8% on Pascal's law subject, 67,6% on Archimedes' law and 55,7% on the topic of hydrostatic pressure. While for female misconception equal to 42,2% and male equal to 22,5% one of the misconceptions that occurs in static fluid material is that students assume that hydrostatic pressure will be large if it has a large area.