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Beil, Fabian; Thees, Michael; Kapp, Sebastian; Kuhn, Jochen – Physics Teacher, 2023
In introductory electric circuits in middle school, students often carry strongly held alternative conceptions. Common to many of these is an idea of electric current as some kind of substance that originates from the battery and moves toward electronic components. Learners often argue that current influences those one by one as they are…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Electronic Equipment, Middle School Students, Science Instruction
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Singh, Chandralekha; Levy, Akash; Levy, Jeremy – Physics Teacher, 2022
After the passage of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act in December 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently assembled an interagency working group and conducted a workshop titled "Key Concepts for Future Quantum Information Science Learners" that focused on…
Descriptors: Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Fontes, Daniel T. M.; Rodrigues, André Machado – Physics Teacher, 2021
Electromagnetism is a complex topic for students at different educational levels. Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that students are unable to visualize the forces, fields, currents, and other electromagnetism key concepts that are related to the topic. Most teachers address this difficulty by including the use of some technological…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Magnets, Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts
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Greenslade, Thomas B., Jr. – Physics Teacher, 2021
In 1981 I published a note on "Balancers" as part of a series of illustrations drawn from 19th-century physics texts. Some months later a wonderful present arrived from a physics teacher in Japan, showing the range of our journal. This was the Horse and Rider Balancer in Fig. 1 that was just like the woodcut in my note. The little…
Descriptors: Physics, Visual Aids, Manipulative Materials, Science Instruction
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Farney, Michael Noble – Physics Teacher, 2022
Physics teachers are sometimes asked to teach an astronomy course for non-majors. One can't make that class dance and sing without the starry night, but on a brightly lit campus viewing deep sky objects may seem impossible. Hence instructors often opt for planetarium shows. However: 1) Planetariums aren't the real thing. 2) People living in large…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Astronomy, Recreational Facilities
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Lingefjärd, Thomas; Ahmet, Guner – Physics Teacher, 2022
The subject of mathematics is important for many other subjects, including physics. The questions we ask in physics often need a mathematical translation to be graphically interpreted and transformed. Students learn physics when interacting with physical questions; questions from physics also give insights and discoveries in mathematical problems.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Physics, Computer Oriented Programs
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Behroozi, Fred – Physics Teacher, 2022
The Young-Laplace (Y-L) equation relates the pressure difference across the interface of two fluids (such as air and water) to the curvature of the interface. The pressure rises on crossing a convex interface such as a rain drop and falls on crossing a concave interface such as the meniscus of water in a glass capillary. The relation between…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Equations (Mathematics), Water
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Nazarian, Robert H. – Physics Teacher, 2022
Interactive classroom demonstrations (ICDs) are used extensively in physics, and prior studies indicate that, when conducted under certain conditions, they lead to appreciable increases in student gains and retention. The literature suggests that the ICD recipe for maximizing student gain is to (i) introduce the physical theory that will be…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Demonstrations (Educational), Physics, Interaction
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Kapucu, Serkan – Physics Teacher, 2022
There are many examples of using smartphones in physics experiments. Students and teachers can easily perform many physics experiments with the help of smartphone sensors, even experiments for which high-cost materials are needed. There are different types of such experiments in which various kinds of sensors are used. Many physical quantities can…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Toys, Physics, Technology Uses in Education
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Hahn, Marcelo Dumas; Cruz, Frederico Alan de Oliveira; Carvalho, Paulo Simeão – Physics Teacher, 2019
When sound waves are taught at the secondary level, the speed of propagation of sound is one of the most important characteristics to be analyzed. However, it is very common in textbooks that the value of sound speed in air is considered constant regardless of the experimental conditions. The great question is that since sound is a mechanical…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Motion, Acoustics, Physics
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Chiang, Chun-Ming; Ma, Shih-Hsin; Wu, Jyun-Yi; Hung, Yao-Chen – Physics Teacher, 2019
This paper mainly proposes a simple method to record scattered light rays via photography, presenting a clearer and brighter representation of the optical path. This technique is applied to the double-slit interference experiment and single-slit diffraction experiment typically conducted in general physics courses, and shows the intuitive results…
Descriptors: Photography, Light, Optics, Physics
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Uchida, Satoko – Physics Teacher, 2019
Practical hands-on experience is an effective component of science education. Lessons that involve demonstrations allow learners to explore and verify information learned from other sources (for example, reading a textbook). As a demonstration for use in a science educational setting, we developed a way to make a variable focal length lens using a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Hands on Science, Models, Human Body
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Cook, Harry; Dudley, Scott C. – Physics Teacher, 2019
High voltage supplies are often used in physics classes for demonstrations and laboratory work. These devices deliver several thousand volts DC, while limiting the current to a safe level, typically under 5 mA. One issue with these power supplies is their expense, which means schools may not have one. Less expensive homemade units have been…
Descriptors: Energy, Physics, Science Instruction, Demonstrations (Educational)
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Traxler, Adrienne; Blue, Jennifer – Physics Teacher, 2020
Gender bias and inequity are pervasive in physics, but teachers can help. A recent Resource Letter digs into the history, current status, and classroom implications of gender and physics. However, one finding from that work was the tendency for "gender in physics" research to treat sex and gender as the same thing and to neglect the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Physics, Science Instruction, Sex Fairness
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Schulze, Tina; Quast, Günter; Bergmann, Antje; Dengler, Roman – Physics Teacher, 2020
Although nearly everyone is familiar with colors from an early age and the fundamentals of color mixing are taught at various abstraction levels throughout kindergarten to high school, we repeatedly observe that our student teachers in physics have problems in explaining the subject. Therefore, we propose an experimental setup that focuses on the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Experiments
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