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When Support Hides Progress: Insights from a Physics Tutorial on Solving Laplace's Equation Using Separation of Variables in Cartesian Coordinates

Jaya Shivangani Kashyap, Robert Devaty, Chandralekha Singh ยท 2025

The electrostatic potential in certain types of boundary value problems can be found by solving Laplace's Equation (LE). To develop students' ability for solving problems that can be solved effectivelโ€ฆ

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When AI Evaluates Its Own Work: Validating Learner-Initiated, AI-Generated Physics Practice Problems

Tobias Geisler, Gerd Kortemeyer ยท 2025

Large language models (LLMs) can now generate physics practice problems in real time, yet the educational value of these items hinges on rapid, reliable post-generation vetting. In this exploratory stโ€ฆ

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Quantum Entrepreneurship Lab: Training a Future Workforce for the Quantum Industry

Aaron Sander, Rosaria Cercola, Andrea Capogrosso, Stefan Filipp, Bernhard Jobst, Christian B. Mendl, Frank Pollmann, Christopher Trummer, Isabell Welpe, Max Werninghaus, Robert Wille, Christian Wimmer ยท 2025

The Quantum Entrepreneurship Lab (QEL) is a one-semester, project-based course at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), designed to bridge the gap between academic research and industrial applicatโ€ฆ

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A Stimulus-Response Model for Explaining When Students Decide to Engage in a Physics Task: The TSMS-Model

Eva Cauet, Alexander Kauertz ยท 2025

This paper introduces a testable model for physics-specific student engagement at the onset of task processing in response to a task-specific motivational stimulus. Empirical research provides evidencโ€ฆ

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Revisiting the displacement current: Two key examples showing when and why it can be neglected

Alvaro Suarez, Arturo C. Marti, Martin Monteiro ยท 2025

This work explores the role of the displacement current in systems beyond capacitors, focusing on coaxial cables and resistors with alternating currents. Although its contribution, compared to that ofโ€ฆ

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The Design and Implementation of a Quantum Information Science Undergraduate Program

Sarah Blanchette, Daniele Normandin, Michel Pioro-Ladriere, Lyne St-Hilaire, Armand Soldera, Karl Thibault, Dave Touchette ยท 2024

Quantum information science is a burgeoning research field attracting vast public and private investment in the last decade. This quick rise has led to a talent gap, where there are more open positionโ€ฆ

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Modeling when and how physics PhD students search for a research group: the role of interests and prior research experiences in timely group integration

Mike Verostek, Casey W. Miller, Benjamin M. Zwickl ยท 2024

Studying the factors that influence the quality of physics PhD students' doctoral experiences, especially those that motivate them to stay or leave their programs, is critical for providing them with โ€ฆ

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Learning difficulties among students when applying Amp\`ere-Maxwell's law and its implications for teaching

Alvaro Suarez, Arturo C. Marti, Kristina Zuza, Jenaro Guisasola ยท 2024

We investigate learning difficulties among second-year students on electromagnetism courses when they apply Amp\`ere-Maxwell's law. Using phenomenography, we analysed written answers from 65 undergradโ€ฆ

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Using the Julia framework to teach quantum entanglement

Shlomo Kashani, David Zaret ยท 2023

Entanglement, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists since its discovery, has been extensively studied by many researchers through both theoretical and experimental aspect of both quantum informatioโ€ฆ

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When gravity meets philosophy again: the Gravitas project

Matteo Tuveri, Daniela Fadda, Viviana Fanti, Walter Bonivento ยท 2022

Gravity is, by far, one of the scientific themes that have most piqued the curiosity of scientists and philosophers over the centuries. The history of science tells us that when the creative effort ofโ€ฆ

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What we talk about when we talk about physics problem solving

Noa Perlmutter, Zosia Krusberg ยท 2022

I am a second-year cognitive science major, and as a student who has completed my physical science distribution requirements, I will likely never again encounter Gauss's law. So why do I feel that theโ€ฆ

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Physics Masterclasses in Africa and the World

Uta Bilow, Kenneth Cecire ยท 2022

International Masterclasses (IMC) enable high school students and teachers to work with particle physicists to analyze authentic data from contemporary experiments and experience being "physicists forโ€ฆ

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eXtreme19: when art and science make the front page

Elisa Prandini, Michele Doro, Manuela Mallamaci, Barbara Montolli, Daria Mauri ยท 2021

Back in mid 2018, we were organizing eXtreme19, a conference on astro-particle physics held in Padova on the topic of extremely energetic emission from galaxies. For the preparation of the graphical mโ€ฆ

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Collaboration between high schools in Japan and Argentina for cosmic-ray research using CosmicWatches

Takeshi Nakamori, Mika Takanashi, Rikako Kono, Ryuta Saito, Kyoka Ozaki, Haruki Nakadai, Kazuo S. Tanaka, Ana Beatriz Prieto, Marianela Pepe, Juan Wehinger, Lucio Martinez, Chizuru Nose, Haruhi Enomoto, Ryosuke Kita, Kyoka Maruta ยท 2021

Cosmic rays are ubiquitous and readily available, making them a good teaching tool for particle and astrophysics by young students. Tan-Q is an inclusive outreach and educational project, providing stโ€ฆ

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Towards Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Science Collaborations: The Multimessenger Diversity Network

E. Bechtol, K. Bechtol, S. BenZvi, C. Bleve, D. Castro, B. Cenko, L. Corlies, A. Furniss, C. M. Hui, D. Kaplan, J. S. Key, J. Madsen, F. McNally, M. McLaughlin, R. Mukherjee, R. Ojha, J. Sanders, M. Santander, J. Schlieder, D. H. Shoemaker, S. Vigeland (for the IceCube Collaboration, Multimessenger Diversity Network) ยท 2021

The Multimessenger Diversity Network (MDN), formed in 2018, extends the basic principle of multimessenger astronomy -- that working collaboratively with different approaches enhances understanding andโ€ฆ

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Student use of a quantum simulation and visualization tool

Shaeema Zaman Ahmed, Carrie A. Weidner, Jesper H. M. Jensen, Jacob F. Sherson, H. J. Lewandowski ยท 2021

Knowledge of quantum mechanical systems is becoming more important for many science and engineering students who are looking to join the emerging quantum workforce. To better prepare a wide range of sโ€ฆ

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When Students Become Doctors: The Blurring of the Lines in Medical Education.

Sherine Salib ยท 2021
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Proposed Framework for complete analysis when teaching Regression in Supervised Machine Learning

Charles Alba ยท 2020

It could be challenging for students and instructors to piece together a different regression concepts to coherently perform a complete data analysis. I propose using a framework which reinforces the โ€ฆ

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When negative is not "less than zero": Electric charge as a signed quantity

Alexis Olsho, Suzanne White Brahmia, Andrew Boudreaux, Trevor Smith ยท 2020

Electromagnetism (E&M) is often challenging for students enrolled in introductory college-level physics courses. Compared to mechanics, the mathematics of E&M is more sophisticated and the representatโ€ฆ

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Deformation of an inflated bicycle tire when loaded

Jordi Renart, Pere Roura-Grabulosa ยท 2019

The deformation of a loaded bike tire has been analyzed with a model consisting of a toroid of thin inextensible walls mounted on a central rim. If the tire radius is much shorter than the rim radius,โ€ฆ

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