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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)
Mungan, Carl E. – Physics Teacher, 2021
An individual harmonic wave (i.e., having a single frequency and wavelength over all time and space) traveling in a loss-free medium has a single constant speed, which is equal to the magnitude of the phase velocity of the wave. However, when a set of different harmonic waves are traveling in the same direction, they interfere to form wave…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Graphs, Physics
Ismail, Mahizah; Minawi, Farid; Mokhtar, Wan Zul Adli Wan; Rashid, Noraihan L. Abdul; Ariffin, Ahmad K. – Physics Education, 2023
Teaching alternating currents, ac or sound waves, is incomplete without an introduction to the oscilloscope. An oscilloscope is a tool that graphically displays electrical signals and shows their time dependence. However, due to the pandemic, triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many students do not have the opportunity to master the use of an…
Descriptors: Physics, Measurement Equipment, Acoustics, Science Experiments
Vizcaino Arevalo, Diego Fabian; Castiblanco Abril, Olga Lucia – Physics Education, 2022
The Mayan city of Chichen Itza is full of legends and mysticism. There, in the temple of Kukulkan, in front of a great pyramid with 91 central staircases, an interesting physical-acoustic phenomenon occurs that has fed mythical stories attributed to the Mayas. When clapping your hands in front of the steps, the echo sounds very different from the…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Acoustics, Foreign Countries
Xuhan Luo; Boxuan Li; Jinmei Liu; Shihong Ma; Xinyuan Wei; Yan Cen – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: An innovative approach utilizing interactive software paired with stereoscopic projection hardware is introduced to enhance the teaching and learning of solid-state physics. This method is distinctive for its integration of complex 3-D visualizations directly into classroom instruction, facilitating a deeper understanding of abstract…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Science Education, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Brian John Winkel – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
We present a complete, soup to nuts, modeling activity of a falling column of water. Many colleagues have used this material in teaching applications of first order separable differential equations. We describe how the material can be presented with students collecting their own data from online videos. One can then either offer the differential…
Descriptors: Calculus, Learner Engagement, Video Technology, Mathematical Concepts
Campos, Francisco M. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2023
Circuit simulation, together with practical sessions, is considered a fundamental tool to assist in the teaching of electronics. Robotics offers rich real-world applications that foster student interest in developing engineering projects. Despite the potential benefits of uniting these two realities, software tools that combine circuits and…
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Robotics
Ludwig-Petsch, Kim; Hirth, Michael; Kuhn, Jochen – Physics Teacher, 2022
The typical sound of George Lucas' laser blaster in the "Star Wars" series is well known. What does a laser blaster in "Star Wars" sound like, and why? Here we show a simple way to produce this sound by using low-cost lab material, like a spring or a Slinky. Building on the work of Crawford, who analyzed the sound of a Slinky…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Lasers, Acoustics
Rebeckah K. Fussell; Megan Flynn; Anil Damle; Michael F. J. Fox; N. G. Holmes – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) hold significant promise for improving physics education research that uses machine learning. In this study, we compare the application of various models for conducting a large-scale analysis of written text grounded in a physics education research classification problem: identifying skills in…
Descriptors: Physics, Computational Linguistics, Classification, Laboratory Experiments
Pinto, Albino Rafael; Saraiva, Carlos – Physics Teacher, 2022
There are several ways in the literature to determine the value of gravitational acceleration. We used an audio plug (3.5-mm jack) that can be reused from types of plugs can also be purchased and are very cheap. In this article, a computer speaker or microphone that are damaged. These value of gravitational acceleration very accurately using…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Birriel, Jennifer J.; Wagoner, Jacob M. – Physics Teacher, 2022
Solar limb darkening is a prominent feature seen in white images of the Sun: the brightness of the solar disk is greatest at the solar center and decreases radially outward towards the limb. White light images can be used to examine and even model limb darkening; however, the limb-darkening effect is, in fact, wavelength dependent. Limb darkening…
Descriptors: Energy, Astronomy, Light, Science Instruction