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Giulia Polverini; Bor Gregorcic – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
The well-known artificial intelligence-based chatbot ChatGPT-4 has become able to process image data as input in October 2023. We investigated its performance on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics to inform the physics education community of the current potential of using ChatGPT in the education process, particularly on tasks that…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Artificial Intelligence, Visual Impairments, Graphs
Niu, Zeyu Jason; Luo, Duanbin – Physics Teacher, 2022
In recent years, with the more powerful functions of smartphones, the use of sensors integrated by mobile phones as an auxiliary tool for physical experiment teaching has become more popular. Combined with the related mobile phone apps, people easily can develop and expand the physical experiment contents of mechanics, optics, acoustic phenomena,…
Descriptors: Measurement, Science Instruction, Physics, Acoustics
Fabian Kieser; Peter Wulff; Jochen Kuhn; Stefan Küchemann – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Generative AI technologies such as large language models show novel potential to enhance educational research. For example, generative large language models were shown to be capable of solving quantitative reasoning tasks in physics and concept tests such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI). Given the importance of such concept inventories for…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
Dahlkemper, Merten Nikolay; Lahme, Simon Zacharias; Klein, Pascal – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This study aimed at evaluating how students perceive the linguistic quality and scientific accuracy of ChatGPT responses to physics comprehension questions. A total of 102 first- and second-year physics students were confronted with three questions of progressing difficulty from introductory mechanics (rolling motion, waves, and fluid dynamics).…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
Jannis Weber; Thomas Wilhelm – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Students experience many difficulties learning the fundamental relationships in Newtonian mechanics, partly due to preexisting mental models that originate from their everyday lives. These preconceptions often persist even after instruction in mechanics and lead to a supposed incompatibility between physics lessons in school and personal…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Mechanics (Physics)
Williams, Hollis – Physics Teacher, 2022
In this article, we construct a very simple double pendulum (the concept of a pendulum should be familiar to all beginning students of classical mechanics). Since a double pendulum has two degrees of freedom, we suggest that this pendulum can be used in the classroom environment to illustrate the concept of normal modes, and we use video software…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), Motion, Scientific Concepts
Tamar Fuhrmann; Leah Rosenbaum; Aditi Wagh; Adelmo Eloy; Jacob Wolf; Paulo Blikstein; Michelle Wilkerson – Science Education, 2025
When learning about scientific phenomena, students are expected to "mechanistically" explain how underlying interactions produce the observable phenomenon and "conceptually" connect the observed phenomenon to canonical scientific knowledge. This paper investigates how the integration of the complementary processes of designing…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Thinking Skills, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Teichrew, Albert; Erb, Roger – Physics Education, 2020
Real situations are overlaid with virtual information using augmented reality technology. In a learning environment, this technology could give everyday relevance to abstract concepts. In this paper, we will show how physical structures in typical experiments can be simply augmented by virtual objects in physics classes. This is achieved by…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Telecommunications
Hernandez, Joel; Niyazov, Rafael; Tesfagiorgis, Kibrewossen – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2021
This article describes the use and advantages of the MATLAB-based program ReshmoBeam, developed to perform beam analysis, as it is done in statics courses of engineering curricula. An important goal of the article is to facilitate the dissemination of the program among faculty teaching these courses. The program is offered free to interested…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Engineering Education, Structural Elements (Construction), Mechanics (Physics)
Vollmer, Michael; Möllmann, Klaus-Peter – Physics Education, 2018
Video analysis with a 30 Hz frame rate is the standard tool in physics education. The development of affordable high-speed-cameras has extended the capabilities of the tool for much smaller time scales to the 1 ms range, using frame rates of typically up to 1000 frames s[superscript -1], allowing us to study transient physics phenomena happening…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Motion, Time
Yang, Eunice – Physics Teacher, 2016
This paper discusses the use of a free mobile engineering application (app) called Autodesk® ForceEffect™ to provide students assistance with spatial visualization of forces and more practice in solving/visualizing statics problems compared to the traditional pencil-and-paper method. ForceEffect analyzes static rigid-body systems using free-body…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software
Spitznagel, Benjamin; Pritchett, Paige R.; Messina, Troy C.; Goadrich, Mark; Rodriguez, Juan – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
Vision and Change [AAAS, 2011] outlines a blueprint for modernizing biology education by addressing conceptual understanding of key concepts, such as the relationship between structure and function. The document also highlights skills necessary for student success in 21st century Biology, such as the use of modeling and simulation. Here we…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Biology, Undergraduate Study, Science Laboratories
Singh, Satya Pal – European Journal of Physics Education, 2019
Quantum mechanics has completed century since its genesis. Quantum mechanics is taught at various levels-starting from school and colleges to universities. Regression methods are introduced at under graduate and post graduate levels to solve Schrodinger equation for finding solutions of various trivial and non-trivial physical problems. The common…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Quantum Mechanics, Mechanics (Physics), Science Instruction
Ayop, Shahrul Kadri – Physics Teacher, 2017
The iPhone 6 introduced a new feature of recording video in Slo-Mo mode at 240 fps (4.17 ms interval). This great capability when integrated with video analysis freeware such as Tracker offers in-depth exploration for physical phenomena such as collisions that occur in a very short duration of time. This article discusses one such usage in…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Video Technology, Computer Software
Chevrier, Joel; Madani, Laya; Ledenmat, Simon; Bsiesy, Ahmad – Physics Teacher, 2013
A number of articles published in this column have dealt with topics in classical mechanics. This note describes some additional examples employing a smartphone and the new software iMecaProf. Steve Jobs presented the iPhone as "perfect for gaming." Thanks to its microsensors connected in real time to the numerical world, physics…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Software