Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 1 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 4 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 20 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 63 |
Descriptor
Models | 78 |
Physics | 78 |
Scientific Principles | 78 |
Science Instruction | 50 |
Scientific Concepts | 31 |
Teaching Methods | 28 |
Motion | 26 |
College Science | 19 |
Science Experiments | 16 |
Energy | 14 |
Equations (Mathematics) | 14 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Bearden, Thomas E. | 3 |
Dresden, Max | 2 |
Smith, Glenn S. | 2 |
Allen, Philip B. | 1 |
Allwood, Dan A. | 1 |
Anderson, Charles W. | 1 |
Baker, Alan | 1 |
Bassichis, William H. | 1 |
Blachowicz, Tomasz | 1 |
Blair, David | 1 |
Blanco, Francesco | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Higher Education | 24 |
Secondary Education | 11 |
High Schools | 6 |
Postsecondary Education | 5 |
Grade 3 | 2 |
Early Childhood Education | 1 |
Elementary Education | 1 |
Grade 10 | 1 |
Grade 4 | 1 |
Middle Schools | 1 |
Primary Education | 1 |
More ▼ |
Audience
Teachers | 9 |
Students | 3 |
Practitioners | 2 |
Researchers | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Pepino, Ron A.; Mabile, Risley W. – Physics Teacher, 2023
It has long been suspected by general relativists that physicists who do not specialize in general relativity (GR) believe that special relativity (SR) is incapable of modeling dynamics within accelerated reference frames. Consequently, many physicists may conclude that certain phenomena, such as time dilation due to acceleration, can only be…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Physics, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts
Meli, Kalliopi; Koliopoulos, Dimitrios; Lavidas, Konstantinos – Science & Education, 2022
Teaching and learning introductory thermodynamics has drawn considerable research attention over the last two decades, especially in several disciplines of higher education. Under particular investigation is the First Law of Thermodynamics (FLT), which offers an expression of energy conservation in thermodynamic systems, as the evidence shows that…
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods
Myungsoo Yoo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Spatio-temporal processes are ubiquitous and prevalent across disciplines. Understanding the mechanisms underlying processes and integrating this information into models is of great interest, as it can improve forecasting accuracy and align with scientific motivation. Examples of such models include Partial Differential Equation (PDE) Models or…
Descriptors: Physics, Teaching Methods, Spatial Ability, Accuracy
Vázquez-Bernal, Bartolomé; Jiménez-Pérez, Roque – Science & Education, 2023
The objective of this work was the theoretical modeling of a construct based on teaching practice about the perception that pupils have of difficulties in problem solving (PS) in experimental sciences, specifically physics, to predict pupil performance in PS. The research was carried out with an incidental sample of second year of secondary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Models, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction
Bassichis, William H. – Physics Teacher, 2019
Most springs do not simply obey Hooke's law because they are constructed to have an initial tension, which must be overcome before normal elongation occurs. This property, well known to engineers, is universally neglected in elementary physics courses. In particular, the standard simple harmonic motion experiment omits any discussion of this…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods
Di Vincenzo, Antonella; Floriano, Michele A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
An application for visualizing the dynamic properties of an equimolar binary mixture of isotropic reactive particles is presented. By introducing a user selectable choice for the activation energy, the application is useful to demonstrate qualitatively that the reaction rate depends on the above choice and on temperature. The application is based…
Descriptors: High School Students, Undergraduate Students, Molecular Structure, Chemistry
Sengul, Ozden – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2020
This paper describes an alternative approach to teaching and learning practices in an undergraduate physics laboratory. The instructor plans and implements the 5E instructional model into the laboratory instruction. The article includes an example of the 5E lesson for the laboratory component of a physics course, which has separate lecture and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Physics, Science Laboratories
Machado, Juliana; Braga, Marco – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
This study investigates the modelling conceptualisation of secondary school students in two situations related to particle dynamics: pendulum's motion and horizontal motion. We performed in-depth clinical interviews with secondary school students (N = 10). Participants' ideas about properties which are not 'given' in empirical observations were…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Models, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction
Kutzner, Mickey D.; Bryson, Michael – Physics Teacher, 2018
There remains a strong movement for Introductory Physics for Life Sciences (IPLS) courses to better integrate physics and biology. Part of the challenge for IPLS educators is to introduce fundamental physical law while simultaneously establishing the relevance of physics to biological science. Life science relevant laboratory experiences are…
Descriptors: Physics, Biological Sciences, Science Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Menger, Fredric M.; Rizvi, Syed A. A. – Physics Education, 2016
The motions of Newton's cradle, consisting of several steel balls hanging side-by-side, have been analysed in terms of a sound pulse that travels via points of contact among the balls. This presupposes a focused energy beam. When the pulse reaches the fifth and final ball, the energy disperses and dislocates the ball with a trajectory equivalent…
Descriptors: Physics, Motion, Kinetics, Science Experiments
Prentis, Jeffrey J.; Obsniuk, Michael J. – Physics Teacher, 2016
Energy and entropy are two of the most important concepts in science. For all natural processes where a system exchanges energy with its environment, the energy of the system tends to decrease and the entropy of the system tends to increase. Free energy is the special concept that specifies how to balance the opposing tendencies to minimize energy…
Descriptors: Energy, Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Xu, Beichen; Su, Jun; Wang, Weiguo – Physics Education, 2018
Cosmic expansion is an important concept in astronomy. For ease of understanding, astronomers generally draw an analogy between cosmic expansion and the expansion of a spherical surface in 3D space. This study theoretically and experimentally investigates the laws governing the motion of particles on the surface of a balloon during expansion.…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Astronomy, Motion
Velentzas, Athanasios; Halkia, Krystallia – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
In this study, an analysis of the structure of scientific explanations included in physics textbooks of upper secondary schools in Greece was completed. In scientific explanations for specific phenomena found in the sample textbooks, the "explanandum" is a logical consequence of the "explanans," which in all cases include at…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Physics, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts
Ryan, Qing X.; Wilcox, Bethany R.; Pollock, Steven J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Identifying and understanding student difficulties with physics content in a wide variety of topical areas is an active research area within the physics education research community. Of particular value are investigations of physics topics that appear multiple times in different contexts across the undergraduate physics curriculum. As these common…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Energy, Difficulty Level
Tu, Hong; Zhu, Jiongming – Physics Teacher, 2016
In physics, idealized models are often used to simplify complex situations. The motivation of the idealization is to make the real complex system tractable by adopting certain simplifications. In this treatment some unnecessary, negligible aspects are stripped away (so-called Aristotelian idealization), or some deliberate distortions are involved…
Descriptors: Physics, Models, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles