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| Titre : | The Physics Teacher, 6/59. Face to face - back in the classroom after the pandemic - Septembre 2021 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/09/2021 |
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The sudden transition to online teaching due to the pandemic in spring 2020 provided us the opportunity to experience firsthand the challenges involved in delivering labs online. After learning that our introductory lab courses would be taught o[...]
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Making meaning with math in physics requires blending physical conceptual knowledge with mathematical symbology. Students in introductory physics classes often struggle with this, but it is an essential component of learning how to think with ma[...]
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Substantial research in teaching and learning has supported the use of active learning strategies in the classroom to improve student learning of fundamental physics concepts and problem-solving skills. The use of worksheets in class has become [...]
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Cost-effective, custom home experiment kits were developed and used for remote teaching of first-semester introductory physics labs. The kit experiments were designed to match the existing onsite lab course learning goals. A revised group projec[...]
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The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 greatly impacted all forms of social activities globally, including traditional classroom activities across all levels of instruction (kindergarten to universities). While online and blended learning (i[...]
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The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has induced health emergencies followed by changes in social life and education. The transition to online teaching might be harder or easier depending on the situation in a particular country, as well as on the cu[...]
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The eye should have a particular focal length in order to see an object. As there are many things to see, the focal length of the eye must vary because these things are not all at the same distance from the eye. We explore the eye accommodation [...]
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The Young’s two-slits experiment is arguably one of the most famous and beautiful experiments in physics. In introductory physics labs the experiment is almost exclusively carried out using a laser, and it is introduced this way in some introduc[...]
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As intriguing optical phenomena that occur in nature, mirages are widely known and often mentioned in physics classes when introducing the basics of optics. In the atmosphere, a mirage occurs under the condition of vertical variations in air den[...]
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While the three laws of conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum are all mentioned in introductory textbooks, there are few experiments through which students can investigate the conservation of angular momentum. Most experiments c[...]
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Richard Feynman, in one of the Messenger Lectures he delivered at Cornell University in 1964, explained that one looks for a new law of nature by the following process [...]
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Many times physics students are asked to solve problems involving objects at rest or moving on inclined planes. May they be blocks or rolling objects standing still, falling down, or climbing up the incline, geometry and trigonometry play an imp[...]
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One of the contemporary trends in the development of physics teaching is its integration with computers. Introducing computers and microcontrollers into the teaching of physics opens up completely new possibilities for explaining different physi[...]
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Physics courses that focus on developing and assessing student competency through the use of standards have successfully been implemented in the past. It appears to be the case that not enough practical information is available to instructors pl[...]
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At a conference on educational physics, someone described a series of multiple-choice problems to test students’ ideas about various mechanical phenomena. One of the problems questioned students’ conceptions about the shape of the Earth’s orbit [...]
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Colin S. Wallace ;
Chase Hatcher ;
Timothy G. Chambers ;
Seth D. Hornstein ;
Julie Kamanetzky ;
Edward E. Prather
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The ground-breaking image of a black hole’s event horizon, which captured the public’s attention and imagination in April 2019, was captured using the power of interferometry: many separate telescopes working together to observe the cosmos in in[...]
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The Leaning Tower is a long-time staple of the demonstration room. I can trace it as far back as apparatus catalogues from the 1850s. Some years ago, while teaching myself how to use a new wood lathe, I made a replica of the original design, sho[...]
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Astrophotography has been responsible for the discovery of planets, solar systems, stars, and several other celestial objects, which directly helps with expanding our knowledge about the universe and creating scientific models for nature. Practi[...]
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The Ball Bearing High Voltage generator is a fairly simple and transparent apparatus that can serve as a tool to motivate conceptual descriptions and calculations in electrostatics that are normally presented to our students in a rather dry and [...]
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Science and engineering students in the second semester of a calculus-based physics sequence typically study and measure the on-axis magnetic field for a multiple, circular turn coil. There are four benefits to this approach: 1) an analytical so[...]
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Since its debut in Elihu Thomson’s 1886 article “Novel Phenomena of Alternating Currents,” the Thomson jumping ring apparatus has been a popular and captivating demonstration of magnetic induction. The components are quite simple. There is a sol[...]
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Chladni patterns are one of the most fascinating physics demonstrations. They can be produced very easily using commercially available apparatus based on metallic plates attached to a mechanical driver, similar to a loudspeaker without the membr[...]
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The conventional approach to teaching blackbody radiation in introductory modern physics courses relies on an oversimplified explanation of Wien’s displacement law, which does not uphold students’ conceptual understanding of Planck’s law and can[...]
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We present a simple experiment that allows us to demonstrate graphically that the intensity of sound waves is proportional to the square of their amplitude, a result that is theoretically analyzed in any introductory wave course but rarely demon[...]
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The question from the title is raised because in almost all introductory physics courses/textbooks the atmospheric pressure has been attributed to the weight of the column of air from a given level in the atmosphere up to its top. “Air is pressi[...]
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This article analyzes and experimentally verifies the stability behavior of the equilibrium states of a conical pendulum. An analysis of the motion presents that the equilibrium states of the pendulum are determined by the pendulum angular speed[...]
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Understanding thermal concepts constitutes one of the most important challenges in teaching science as these concepts are central to the principals of science and allow students to build connections among scientific disciplines. From an early ag[...]
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One of the main topics of elementary physics is the idea that every material is composed of “little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed in[...]
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Graphs are an important component in physics laboratory reports. We have noticed that our students have difficulty selecting the scale and the starting value for an axis while generating graphs on graph paper. Recommendations concerning convenie[...]
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A common procedure when conducting physics experiments is to repeat a measurement several times to calculate the mean and standard deviation. That might be the only instruction we give to students as a means to minimize random errors. However, t[...]
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Laboratory report assignments for non-major and introductory classes can be challenging because the students are unfamiliar with the type of technical writing required and the subject matter. These issues for the student make the grading for the[...]
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This November marks another anniversary of the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, an example appropriate to introductory science or physical sciences courses from grade school to university. The purpose of this brief submission is to add an [...]
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Already when they enter primary school, children have rich everyday experience with factors influencing the rate of liquids’ evaporation. Tea spilled into a large puddle on the table evaporates more rapidly than the same amount remaining in the [...]
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During the course of international curriculum reform, decision making about socioscientific issues (SSI)—open-ended controversial issues with connections to science, technology, and society—has been labeled a critical tool for achieving scientif[...]
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In support of teaching astronomy as a human enterprise, modern astronomy teaching often emphasizes visuals—whether heavenly telescope images of the cosmos or graphs depicting the relationships between physical process variables. Well-known sugge[...]
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Nowadays, smartphones play an important role in the physics laboratory as well as in Arduino-based sensors. Some recent examples include the analysis of acoustic experiments with mobile devices, mechanics experiments such as those on linear and [...]
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