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Moya, Antonio Angel – Physics Teacher, 2022
Resistor--capacitor (RC) circuit labs help students, but most courses don't include them because of complications and cost. This work presents an easy and inexpensive Arduino-based lab on the charge and energy transfer between two capacitors with different values of the initial electric charge when they are connected through a resistor. Capacitors…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Energy
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Ravishankar Chatta Subramaniam; Nikhil Borse; Amir Bralin; Jason W. Morphew; Carina M. Rebello; N. Sanjay Rebello – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Reform documents advocate for innovative pedagogical strategies to enhance student learning. A key innovation is the integration of science and engineering practices through engineering design (ED)-based physics laboratory tasks, where students tackle engineering design problems by applying physics principles. While this approach has its benefits,…
Descriptors: Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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Ian Descamps; Sophia Jeon; N. G. Holmes; Rachel E. Scherr; David Hammer – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
In introductory physics laboratory instruction, students often expect to confirm or demonstrate textbook physics concepts. This expectation is largely undesirable: labs that emphasize confirmation of textbook physics concepts are generally unsuccessful at teaching those concepts and even in contexts that do not emphasize confirmation, such…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Personal Autonomy
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Sundstrom, Meagan; Heim, Ashley B.; Park, Barum; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Researchers have pinpointed recognition from others as one of the most important dimensions of students' science and engineering identity. Studies, however, have found gender biases in students' recognition of their peers, with inconsistent patterns across introductory science and engineering courses. Toward finding the source of this variation,…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Physics, Science Instruction, Peer Relationship
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Wagoner, Kasey; Flanagan, Daniel – Physics Teacher, 2018
The game of baseball provides an interesting laboratory for experimenting with mechanical phenomena (there are many good examples in "The Physics Teacher," available on Professor Alan Nathan's website, and discussed in "Physics of Baseball & Softball"). We have developed a lab, for an introductory-level physics course, that…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods
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Ekkens, Tom – Physics Teacher, 2020
Semiconductor devices, usually made from silicon wafers, are present in the electronic gadgets that we use on a daily basis. In an introductory physics class, the textbook usually devotes a few pages to these devices and moves on. As a result, students may readily forget the material or fail to see how it relates to their lives. A solution is to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Electronics
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La Braca, Franco; Kalman, Calvin S. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Traditional, template physics labs are often associated with student dissatisfaction and superficial applications, and are known to leave students with fragmented knowledge. An alternative known as labatorials, a conceptually driven approach to labs, has been proposed. In a number of studies, labatorials have been shown to work well. However, what…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Laboratory Experiments
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Gosling, Chris – Physics Teacher, 2021
While laboratories have long been associated with introductory physics courses, there is doubt as to whether they positively impact student learning. Holmes and Wieman found that students who elected to take optional laboratories fared no better across a range of metrics than their counterparts who did not participate. In addition, these…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Laboratory Experiments
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Alexandra Werth; Colin G. West; Nidhal Sulaiman; H. J. Lewandowski – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have emerged as a promising approach to enhance undergraduate STEM education by engaging students in authentic discovery. CUREs integrate genuine research projects into undergraduate courses, providing students with a real research experience while earning academic credit. While CUREs offer…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Research Training, Undergraduate Students
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Sobhanzadeh, Mandana; Zizler, Peter – Physics Teacher, 2021
In this paper, we present a selection methodology in the physics laboratory that lowers student anxiety and is beneficial to the instructors as well. At Mount Royal University, the traditional laboratory experimental exercises were replaced by a new style of laboratory called labatorials. In our previous research work, we found that labatorials…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Introductory Courses, Physics, Laboratory Experiments
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Goldman, Jesse; McNichols, Andrew; Pipes, Robert – Physics Teacher, 2020
In this paper, we describe a study of cosmic ray muon rates and energies at various elevations on Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. The study was originally conceived as an extension to the upper-division modern physics laboratory at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and used the TeachSpin Muon Physics apparatus (abbreviated TSMP below) from that…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Physics, Science Instruction, Energy
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Blais, Brian S. – Physics Teacher, 2020
Progress is made in science by constructing many models (possibly of different complexities), testing them against measurements, and determining which of them explain the data the best. It is my observation, however, that in many introductory physics labs we provide students with the materials and methods to verify the "correct" model of…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments, Teaching Methods
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Emily M. Stump; Mark Hughes; Gina Passante; N. G. Holmes – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] Uncertainty is an important concept in physics laboratory instruction. However, little work has examined how students reason about uncertainty beyond the introductory (intro) level. In this work we aimed to compare intro and beyond-intro…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Physics, Introductory Courses
May, Jason Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Undergraduate physics laboratory curriculum has undergone significant modification in recent decades in response to research and recommendations from educational and professional organizations and stakeholders. These reforms address multiple issues, such as 1) lack of student agency in experimentation, 2) an incomplete framework for student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Introductory Courses, Physics
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Wagoner, Kasey; Flanagan, Daniel – Physics Teacher, 2019
This paper describes a new lab experiment where students explore the magnetic force on a permanent magnet placed inside a short solenoid. This lab is the fourth experiment performed in the second semester of the calculus-based introductory physics course at Washington University in St. Louis. The experiment is performed using a speaker (which…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Science Experiments, Magnets, Physics
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