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Visualizing beat phenomenon between two amplitude-modulated (AM) light beams on a solar cell using smartphones

Santiago Ortuno-Molina, Francisco M. Munoz-Perez, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Juan A. Monsoriu ยท 2025

We present a new simple experimental setup for demonstrating beat phenomenon. We have combined two amplitude-modulated light beams on a solar cell using two smartphones as signal generators and a thirโ€ฆ

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VirtualRelativity: An Interactive Simulation of the Special Theory of Relativity in Virtual Reality

Alberto Boffi, Ezio Puppin, Maurizio Contran ยท 2024

The Special Theory of Relativity, introduced by Albert Einstein in the early 20th century, marked a radical shift in our understanding of space and time. Nevertheless, the theory's non-intuitive impliโ€ฆ

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Experimentation on stochastic trajectories: from Brownian motion to inertial confined dynamics

Azul Maria Brigante, Corina Revora, Gabriel Fernando Volonnino, Marcos Damian Perez, Gabriela Pasquini, Maria Gabriela Capeluto ยท 2023

Statistical physics courses typically employ abstract language that describes objects too small to be seen, making the topic challenging for students to understand. In this work, we introduce a simpleโ€ฆ

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Coupled oscillations of the Wilberforce pendulum unveiled by smartphones

Thomas Gallot, Daniel Gau, Rodrigo Garcia-Tejera ยท 2022

The Wilberforce pendulum is a great experience for illustrating important properties of coupled oscillatory systems, such as normal modes and beat phenomena, in physics courses. A helical spring attacโ€ฆ

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Physics Teaching and Educational Interdisciplinarity with A.V. Usova Revisited

Oleg Yavoruk ยท 2022

The paper deals with pedagogical heritage of A.V. Usova (1921-2014) that yields insights into problems of interdisciplinary relationship in the school science education system. Her fundamental works wโ€ฆ

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Thin film optics computations in a high-level programming language environment: tutorial

Salvador Bosch, Josep Ferre-Borrull, Jordi Sancho-Parramon ยท 2022

Thin film technology is a most relevant field in terms of number of different applications and, even more, in how widespread the use of the technology is. Virtually all optical devices involving lightโ€ฆ

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Conceptual physical education: A course for the future.

Charles B Corbin ยท 2021

The conceptual physical education (CPE) innovation began in the mid-20th century as an alternative approach to college-level, activity-only basic instruction classes. In addition to physical activity โ€ฆ

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Experimental Physics Pratice: Application of Scientific Method to Investigate the Pandemic Behavior of COVID-19

Raul Guilherme Batista Mendes ยท 2020

This project of experimental physics practice has consisted of the insertion of CTPM / SJDR high school students in the experimental investigative environment through the application of the concept ofโ€ฆ

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Why aren't more theories named after women?: Teaching women's history in physics

Beth Parks ยท 2020

Barriers to women's education and employment in Europe and the U.S. in the nineteenth century made it unlikely that any women would be among the few physicists whose ideas are taught in high school anโ€ฆ

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Spatial structuring of light for undergraduate laboratory

Sergei Panarin, Jonas Muller, Shashi Prabhakar, Robert Fickler ยท 2020

In recent times, spatial light modulators have become a common tool in optics laboratories as well as industrial environment to shape the spatial structure of a beam. Although these devices are often โ€ฆ

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Using smartphones as hydrophones: two experiments in underwater acoustics

Martin Monteiro, Arturo C. Marti ยท 2020

During the last years, it has become increasingly clear that smartphones are valuable tools to be used almost everywhere. Until recently, a place that still resisted smartphone onslaught was the aquatโ€ฆ

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Die Bahnen der ISS und anderer Satelliten

Markus Nielbock ยท 2019

This activity was created within the framework of the "Space for Education" project, which ams at experiencing physical principles on the basis of topics related to space travel. Artificial satellitesโ€ฆ

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Using CoCalc as a Training Tool for Mathematics Teachers Pre-Service Training

Maiia Popel ยท 2019

This paper deals with the problem of theoretical justification and development of scientific and methodological support for using the cloud service CoCalc as a tool for the formation of mathematics teโ€ฆ

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Voltmeter in series?

Zoltan Gingl, Robert Mingesz ยท 2018

A recent physics challenge shows a circuit, where a voltmeter is connected in series. Indeed, real voltmeters have finite input resistance, therefore one may think that they can be used as resistors. โ€ฆ

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Tools of computer simulation in learning physics

Yu. V. Yechkalo ยท 2018

The article deals with the problem of intellectual development of students in learning of physics by means of computer simulation. The main objectives of teaching computer simulation in learning of phโ€ฆ

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A.V. Usova's Contribution to the Field of Concept Learning in Physics Classroom

Oleg Yavoruk ยท 2018

A.V. Usova (1921-2014) has always been one of the leading figures in Russian physics education. Her theory of physics concept formation was formulated during the 1970s and the 1980s and directly influโ€ฆ

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Particle Camera MX-10 in Physics Education

Jiri Kvita, Berenika Cermakova, Natalie Matulova, Jan Postulka, Daniel Stanik ยท 2018

We present several applications of the particle camera MX-10 in different radiation environments, leading to strikingly different observed patterns and consequently particle composition as well as recโ€ฆ

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Visualizing acoustical beats with a smartphones

Marcos H. Gimenez, Isabel Salinas, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Jose A. Gomez-Tejedor, Juan A. Monsoriu ยท 2016

In this work, a new Physics laboratory experiment on Acoustics beats is presented. We have designed a simple experimental setup to study superposition of sound waves of slightly different frequencies โ€ฆ

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Direct visualization of mechanical beats by means of an oscillating smartphone

Marcos H. Gimenez, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Juan A. Monsoriu ยท 2016

The resonance phenomenon is widely known from Physics courses. Qualitatively speaking, it takes place in a driven oscillating system whenever the driven frequency approaches the natural frequency. It โ€ฆ

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Cluster Analysis of Educational Data: an Example of Quantitative Study on the answers to an Open-Ended Questionnaire

Onofrio Rosario Battaglia, Benedetto Di Paola, Claudio Fazio ยท 2015

In the last years many studies examined the consistency of students' answers in a variety of contexts. Some of these papers tried to develop more detailed models of the consistency of students' reasonโ€ฆ

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