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The Boiling-Frog Problem of Physics Education

Gerd Kortemeyer · 2025

It is astonishing how rapidly general-purpose AI has crossed familiar thresholds in introductory physics. Comparing outputs from successive models, GPT-5 Thinking moves far beyond the plug-and-chug te…

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Exploring the Feasibility of Employing a Hybrid Machine Learning Method to Unpack Student Reasoning Patterns in Physics Essays

Winter Allen, N. Sanjay Rebello · 2025

We propose a novel clustering pipeline that combines two classic clustering algorithms to better understand student problem-solving strategies. This unsupervised machine learning method helps uncover …

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Magnetic field of a linear octupole

E. Arribas, I. Escobar, R. Ramirez-Vazquez, A.C. Marti, M. Monteiro, C. Stari, A. Belendez · 2024

We measure the magnetic field produced by a linear octupole formed by four magnets placed in such a way that both their magnetic moments and their quadrupole moments cancel each other. The magnetic fi…

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A Versatile Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Experiment in Optical Fiber for the Undergraduate Laboratory

Cyrus Bjurlin, Theresa Chmiel · 2024

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is a quantum optics laboratory experiment that has recently become more accessible to undergraduate students. The experiment consists of two identical photons simulta…

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Misconceptions, knowledge, and attitudes of secondary school students towards the phenomenon of radioactivity

A. I. Morales, P. Tuzon · 2020

Since its serendipitous discovery in 1896 by Henry Becquerel, radioactivity has called the attention of both the scientific community and the broad audience due to its intriguing nature, its multiple …

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Particle Dance: Particle physics in the dance studio

K. Nikolopoulos, M. Pardalaki · 2019

A workshop using dance to introduce particle physics concepts to young children is presented. The workshop is realised in the dance studio, the children assume complete ownership of the activity and d…

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Understanding CMB physics through the exploration of exotic cosmological models: a classroom study using CLASS

Tanja Rindler-Daller · 2019

Every cosmology lecturer these days is confronted with teaching the modern cosmological standard model $\Lambda$CDM, and there are many approaches to do this. However, the danger is imminent that it i…

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Multiple choice homework as a cost-effective and efficient tool for student self-training

G.L. Lippi · 2018

A self-training scheme geared at inducing students to improve their skills through independent homework is presented. The motivation is to identify an inexpensive, yet effective tool for raising the c…

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DiffGame: Game-based mathematics learning for physics

Mads Kock Pedersen, Anette Svenningsen, Niels Bonderup Dohn, Andreas Lieberoth, Jacob Sherson · 2016

Differentiation is a mathematical skill applied throughout science in order to describe the change of a function with respect to a dependent variable. Thus, an intuitive understanding of differentiati…

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Newton's 2nd Law and the Physics of Dance

Richard P. Barber Jr., David J. Popalisky, Rose Hacking, Kristina Chiapella · 2007

In teaching the physical sciences, a significant challenge lies in the student's tendency to consider the scientific world and the "real" world as separate. For example, Newton's 1st Law of Motion sta…

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