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Franco, Margareth K. K. D.; Serbena, José Pedro Mansueto; Mattoso Filho, Ney Pereira; de Oliveira Wiener, Denis; Yokaichiya, Fabiano; Fujimoto, Milton Massumi – Physics Education, 2023
At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic surprised the world, affecting activities that promote attendance, including abruptly impacting the education area. Educational institutions, from preschool to university, were required to adopt alternative teaching methods to continue their activities. Distance learning has been adopted by educators…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Pandemics
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Yoshinaga, Kyohei; Kubota, Miki; Kamata, Masahiro – Physics Education, 2015
We have developed much simpler cloud chambers that use only ice and cooking salt instead of the dry ice or ice gel pack needed for the cloud chambers produced in our previous work. The observed alpha-ray particle tracks are as clear as those observed using our previous cloud chambers. The tracks can be observed continuously for about 20?min, and…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Physics, Teaching Methods, Radiation
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Dias, Marco Adriano; Carvalho, Paulo Simeão; Vianna, Deise Miranda – Physics Education, 2016
Image modelling is a video-based teaching tool that is a combination of strobe images and video analysis. This tool can enable a qualitative and a quantitative approach to the teaching of physics, in a much more engaging and appealling way than the traditional expositive practice. In a specific scenario shown in this paper, the Ollie trick, we…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
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Tran, Trinh-Ba; van den Berg, Ed; Ellermeijer, Ton; Beishuizen, Jos – Physics Education, 2018
Research has shown that the objectives for laboratory teaching--just as with other teaching methods--are often not achieved and that many laboratory sessions are ineffective and yet expensive in terms of pupil and teacher time, and facilities. There are several reasons for this, but one reason is that instructions for many lab activities are too…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Secondary School Science
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Ashmann, Scott; Anderson, Charles W.; Boeckman, Heather – Physics Education, 2016
Using real-world examples, ray diagrams, and a cognitive apprenticeship cycle, this paper focuses on developing students' conceptual (not mathematical) understanding of refraction. Refraction can be a difficult concept for students to comprehend if they do not have well-designed opportunities to practice explaining situations where reflection and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Scientific Literacy
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Bokor, Nándor – Physics Education, 2015
The famous motto of the Lucky Luke comics series and its accompanying drawing are analyzed from a physicist's viewpoint. They provide useful pedagogical tools to discuss such aspects of relativity as causality, the equivalence principle, gravitational blue shift, and the tachyonic antitelephone. [This article was first published in Hungarian in…
Descriptors: Physics, Teaching Methods, Concept Teaching, Scientific Concepts
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Tamang, Sushmika; Nopparatjamjomras, Suchai; Chitaree, Ratchapak; Nopparatjamjomras, Thasaneeya R. – Physics Education, 2015
A container was placed on top of a piece of white paper, and a pin positioned so that it vertically touched an outside wall of the container. Students were asked to predict the image of the pin when it was observed from the top of the container. Two scenarios of either an empty container or a container completely filled with water were considered…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Critical Thinking, Science Activities
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Cross, R. – Physics Education, 2015
Experiments are described on collisions between two billiard balls and between a bat and a ball. The experiments are designed to extend a student's understanding of collision events and could be used either as a classroom demonstration or for a student project.
Descriptors: Science Education, Demonstrations (Educational), Student Projects, Science Experiments
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Atkin, Keith – Physics Education, 2015
The current use of two sets of units in the UK continues to be a source of muddle and confusion. Young people are taught metric (SI) units in school but, in the outside world, still have to contend with units such as inches, feet, pounds, stones and miles. Specialist teachers and practitioners of the sciences are not blameless. This paper…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Metric System, Educational Change
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Kincanon, Eric – Physics Education, 2013
An alternative method of presenting the second law of thermodynamics in introductory courses is presented. The emphasis is on statistical approaches as developed by Atkins. This has the benefit of stressing the statistical nature of the law.
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Lara, V. O. M.; Amaral, D. F.; Faria, D.; Vieira, L. P. – Physics Education, 2014
We use a tablet to experimentally determine the dependencies of the magnetic field (B) on the electrical current and the axial distance from a coil (z). Our data shows good precision on the inverse cubic dependence of the magnetic field on the axial distance, B?z[superscript -3]. We obtain the value of air permeability µ[subscript air] with good…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Magnets, Electronic Equipment, Physics
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Rodríguez, Y.; Santana, A.; Mendoza, L. M. – Physics Education, 2013
Recently, with the development of more powerful and accurate computational tools, the inclusion of new didactic materials in the classroom is known to have increased. However, the form in which these materials can be used to enhance the learning process is still under debate. Many different methodologies have been suggested for constructing new…
Descriptors: Physics, Optics, Computation, Technology Uses in Education