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Kinematics in Context: The Record Jump of Huaso and Larraguibel as a Teaching Resource for Physics

Mauricio Echiburu, Jose L. Marcos, Rene Rios, Robinson Moreno Martinez ยท 2026

In 1949, Captain Alberto Larraguibel and his horse Huaso set the world record for equestrian high jump in Vi\~na del Mar, Chile, by clearing a height of 2.47 meters, a mark that remains unbeaten. Thisโ€ฆ

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Curiosity Over Hype: Modeling Motivation Language to Understand Early Outcomes in a Selective Quantum Track

Daniella Alexandra Crysti Vargas Saldana, Freddy Herrera Cueva ยท 2026

We study whether latent motivation signals in short Spanish admission responses predict engagement and performance in an early quantum computing pathway run by QuantumHub Peru. We analyze N=241 applicโ€ฆ

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Spreading viscous fluids on a horizontal surface: project-based learning in fluid mechanics

R. Bolanos-Jimenez, P. L. Luque-Escamilla ยท 2026

The spreading of a thin viscous fluid film on a horizontal surface is an interesting problem in fluid mechanics with many practical applications ranging from coating processes to biological systems anโ€ฆ

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A Critical Analysis of Affirmative Action and Academic Performance: A Response to the Preprint Authored by Matheus et al. (2025)

Claudio Andre Barbosa de Lira, Ricardo Borges Viana ยท 2025

This article offers a critical response to the preprint by Matheus et al. (2025), which evaluates the academic performance of students admitted through different entry routes at Sao Paulo State Univerโ€ฆ

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A critical review of pre-post surveys designed to measure student epistemology in undergraduate science courses

Kyriaki Chatzikyriakidou, Kristi L. Hall, Edward F. Redish, Todd J. Cooke ยท 2025

The epistemology of science students, i.e., their beliefs about the nature of the knowledge they are learning, about what they have to do to learn it, and about how they will use that knowledge, oftenโ€ฆ

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Building Student Understanding of Quantum Information Science and Engineering through Projects on Applications to Medical Technologies

Jessica L. Rosenberg, Nancy Holincheck ยท 2025

Medical technologies, including quantum machine learning (QML) and quantum sensing, represent transformative tools for addressing some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare and drug discovery โ€ฆ

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Integrating Evolutionary Biology into Physics Classroom: Scaling, Dimension, Form and Function

Kausik S Das, Larry Gonick, Salem Al Mosleh ยท 2024

Since Galileo and (more recently) D'Arcy Thompson, it has been understood that physical processes and constraints influence biological structures and their resulting functions. However these cross-disโ€ฆ

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Building a Simplistic Automatic Extruder: Instrument Development Opportunities for the Laboratory

Stefanie Klisch, Dylan Gilbert, Emma Breaux, Aliyah Dalier, Sudipta Gupta, Bruno Jakobi, Gerald J. Schneider ยท 2024

A well-rounded introduction to work in a STEM laboratory is vital to scientific education. Besides the ability to use available instrumentation for sample characterization, students should also be impโ€ฆ

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Watch the Moon, Learn the Moon: Lunar Geology Research at School Level with Telescope and Open Source Data

K. J. Luke, Abhinav Mishra, Vihaan Ghare, Shaurya Chanyal, Priyamvada Shukla, Anushreya Pandey, Vaishnavi Rane, Ashadieeyah Pathan, Parv Vaja, Sai Gogate, Shreyansh Tiwari, Jagruti Singh, Dhruv Davda ยท 2023

Science-AI Symbiotic Group at Seven Square Academy, Naigaon was formed in 2023 with the purpose of bringing school students to the forefronts of science research by involving them in hands on researchโ€ฆ

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Particle Physics in High School Part II: Nuclear Physics

Thaisa C. da C. Guio, Glauber C. Dorsch ยท 2023

We present the second part of a series of papers proposing a novel teaching sequence for Particle Physics in high school. The topic of the present work is Nuclear Physics. The goal of the sequence is โ€ฆ

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Galaxy-Classification Activity for All Ages

Kathy L. Cooksey, Anne J. Metevier, Kate H. R. Rubin, Philip I. Choi, Lynne Raschke ยท 2022

Classification is a general tool of science; it is used to sort and categorize biological organisms, chemical elements, astronomical objects, and many other things. In scientific classification, taxonโ€ฆ

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Surviving Early Career Research and Beyond in the Physics of Life: A concise user guide

Mark C Leake ยท 2022

Early Career Researcher (ECR) development is a dynamic challenge that tensions the urge to perform ground-breaking research against an ultimate practical aspiration of establishing an acceptable levelโ€ฆ

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Using smartphone photographs of the Moon to acquaint students with non-Euclidean geometry

Hugo Caerols, Rodrigo A. Carrasco, Felipe A. Asenjo ยท 2021

Although they are sometimes considered problematic to grasp by students, the concepts behind non-Euclidean geometry can be taught using astronomical images. By using photographs of the Moon taken withโ€ฆ

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The role of introductory physics for life sciences in supporting students to use physical models flexibly

Benjamin D. Geller, Maya Tipton, Brandon Daniel-Morales, Nikhil Tignor, Calvin White, Catherine H. Crouch ยท 2021

A central goal of Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences (IPLS) is to prepare students to use physics to model and analyze biological situations, a skill of increasing importance for their future โ€ฆ

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The impact of introductory physics for the life sciences in a senior biology capstone course

Benjamin D. Geller, Jack Rubien, Sara M. Hiebert, Catherine H. Crouch (Swarthmore College, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Biology) ยท 2021

A goal of Introductory Physics for Life Sciences (IPLS) curricula is to prepare students to effectively use physical models and quantitative reasoning in biological and medical settings. To assess wheโ€ฆ

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How the learning environment predicts male and female students' motivational beliefs in algebra-based introductory physics courses

Sonja Cwik, Kyle Whitcomb, Chandralekha Singh ยท 2020

Societal stereotypes and biases pertaining to who belongs in physics and who can excel in physics can impact motivational beliefs, e.g., of women and racial and ethnic minority students in physics couโ€ฆ

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Democratizing University Research

Nick S. Jones, Oscar Ces ยท 2020

We detail an experimental programme we have been testing in our university. Our Advanced Hackspace, attempts to give all members of the university, from students to technicians, free access to the meaโ€ฆ

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Contemplating electromagnetic phenomena in lived experience through somatic meditation

Zosia Krusberg, Andrew Feldman, Elam Coalson ยท 2020

One of the objectives of the undergraduate physics curriculum is for students to become aware of the connections between formal physical principles and personal experience. However, research has shownโ€ฆ

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Super-resolution imaging within reach

Stephane Perrin, Keshia Badu, Paul Montgomery, Sylvain Lecler ยท 2018

Although several optical techniques have been recently developed in order to overcome the resolution limit in microscopy, the imaging of sub-wavelength features is still a real challenge. In practise,โ€ฆ

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Operationalizing relevance in physics education: using a systems view to expand our conception of making physics relevant

Abhilash Nair, Vashti Sawtelle ยท 2018

A common hope of many physics educators and researchers is that students leave the course with a stronger sense that physics is relevant to them than when they entered the course. Multiple survey measโ€ฆ

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