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Howard, Daniel; Meier, Mariel – Physics Teacher, 2021
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 project approach optimized for remote use was also developed that leverages the kits. Student survey results…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Physics, Educational Technology
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Wörner, Salome; Fischer, Christian; Kuhn, Jochen; Scheiter, Katharina; Neumann, Irene – Physics Teacher, 2021
Video motion analysis allows tracing trajectories of objects in motion and is an established method in physics education. Tablet computers, with their integrated cameras, offer the opportunity to both record and analyze dynamic motions during experiments on a single device. This enables students to work without transitioning the data between…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Motion, Astronomy, Science Instruction
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Marckwordt, Jasmine; Muller, Alexandria; Harlow, Danielle; Franklin, Diana; Landsberg, Randall H. – Physics Teacher, 2021
Quantum computers are at the forefront of computing; however, few people understand how they work and their capabilities. We present two versions of an interactive activity designed for high school students (ages 13 to 18) that introduce a core quantum concept--"entanglement." The first version illustrates a simple connection between two…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, High School Students, Teaching Methods
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Bodegom, Erik; Jensen, Erik; Sokoloff, David – Physics Teacher, 2019
The IOLab is a versatile and inexpensive data acquisition device in a cart that can roll on its three wheels. It has numerous sensors for a variety of physical quantities. We adapted "RealTime Physics, Module 1: Mechanics" active learning labs for use with the IOLab. We tested these labs both on campus and with distance learners at…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Distance Education
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Baum, Dave – Physics Teacher, 2019
College physics textbooks (algebra based) tend to shy away from topics that are usually thought to require calculus. I suspect that most students are just as happy to avoid these topics. Occasionally, I encounter students who are not so easily satisfied, and have found it useful to maintain a storehouse of non-calculus solutions for some common…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Calculus, Trigonometry
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Day, Michael A. – Physics Teacher, 2019
As physics teachers, we possess many items (e.g., demonstrations, online exercises, and even stories) in our pedagogical toolkits. In this paper, I propose and explore one such item that I have found particularly useful and pedagogically significant--the "integrated vocabulary boost." In what follows, I will address what I mean by such…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
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Muller, Eric – Physics Teacher, 2019
What do you get when you cross a rubber band with a photocopier? You get a whole series of physics lessons and some great images! It's easy to get this activity up and running, be amazed, and apply it to any number of scientific concepts. It lends itself to a whole host of investigations. This easy-to-do activity can also be aligned to NGSS…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Activities, Reprography
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Hobbs, Robert – Physics Teacher, 2018
Gas emission tubes are widely used laboratory and demonstration apparatus because the line source nature of the tube produces line spectra when viewed directly through a diffraction grating. These are long and distinctly visible images of the tube, located to either side of the zeroth order at an angle determined by the wavelength. A continuous…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Inquiry, College Science
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Deligkaris, Christos – Physics Teacher, 2018
The phenomenon of electric polarization is crucial to student understanding of forces exerted between charged objects and insulators or conductors, the process of charging by induction, and the behavior of electroscopes near charged objects. In addition, polarization allows for microscopic-level models of everyday-life macroscopic-level phenomena.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Science Activities, Physics, Energy
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Rieger, Georg W.; McIver, Jess; Mazabel, Silvia; Burkholder, Eric W. – Physics Teacher, 2023
It is often challenging for physics instructors to dedicate time during a course to engage students in developing strategic approaches to learning in addition to problem-solving skills and content knowledge. In this work, we introduce a simple modification to our teaching practice with the purpose of fostering student development of self-regulated…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Introductory Courses, Physics, Science Instruction
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LoPresto, Michael – Physics Teacher, 2018
Providing exposure to the process and methods of science is a fundamental goal of any general education college science course. This is largely because most students taking such courses are generally "not" science majors, so they are likely to take few, if any, other science courses. Meeting this goal can be a challenge in courses such…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Astronomy, Physics, Science Laboratories
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Gearhart, Bradley; MacIsaac, Dan – Physics Teacher, 2020
Light rays refract when passing through pockets of transparent fluids with different indices of refraction such as ordinary air pockets of varying temperature. This phenomenon makes night stars twinkle, distorts views above hot asphalt roads and hot barbeque grills, and provides an opportunity for visualizing the normally invisible movement of…
Descriptors: Light, Physics, Science Instruction, Visualization
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Eberly, B.; Lincoln, D. – Physics Teacher, 2022
Neutrinos are perhaps the least understood of the known denizens of the subatomic world. They have nearly no mass, interact only via the weak nuclear force and gravity, and, perhaps most surprising, the three known species of neutrinos can transform from one variant into another. This transformation, called neutrino oscillation, has been…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Nuclear Physics, Scientific Research, Quantum Mechanics
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Pal, Arnab; Panchadhyayee, Pradipta; Sahu, Kriti R.; Syam, Debapriyo – Physics Teacher, 2022
The refractive index is a number that governs how light changes its direction of propagation as it enters one material medium from another. This phenomenon is known as refraction and the angles of incidence and refraction of light, referred to the normal to the interface of the two media at the point of incidence, are related by Snell's law. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Light, Scientific Concepts
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Lee, Scott A. – Physics Teacher, 2022
Most physics courses begin with one-dimensional kinematics, which is usually restricted to the case of constant acceleration. Here we report a unique exercise for an introductory algebra-based physics course involving the running and non-constant acceleration of the theropod dinosaur "Dilophosaurus wetherilli" and the world-famous…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Algebra, Physical Activities
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