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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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Which Rope Breaks? A Study of Tension Distribution in Multi-Rope Systems

Amir Eskandari-asl, Roberto De Luca ยท 2025

We investigate the tension distribution in systems of mass-less ropes under different loading conditions. For a two-rope system, we demonstrate how the breaking scenario depends on the applied force dโ€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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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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Algoritmos de Resoluci\'on de Problemas como disparadores de procesos de car\'acter compensatorio y de reconstrucci\'on de saberes previos

Rodrigo E. Menchon, Santiago H. Luna, Andrea Fourty, Hugo D. Navone ยท 2025

In this work, we present a teaching strategy implemented in Introduction to Physics, corresponding to the first year of the Physics Teacher Degree at the National University of Rosario, whose main purโ€ฆ

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ChatGPT-Assisted Visualization of Atomic Orbitals: Understanding Symmetry, Mixed State, and Superposition

Huiping Han, Liang Wu ยท 2024

For undergraduate students newly introduced to quantum mechanics, solving simple Schr\"{o}dinger equations is relatively straightforward. However, the more profound challenge lies in comprehending theโ€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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La inserci\'on de la Astronom\'ia Cultural en la educaci\'on formal: fundamentos y prop\'ositos

Juan Ignacio Bastero, Fernando Karaseur, Sofia Judith Garofalo, Alejandro Gangui ยท 2023

There are vast educational research works that highlight the serious difficulties that students present in learning astronomical subjects, as well as the prevalence of a traditional education distanceโ€ฆ

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Un sistema automatizado para el adiestramiento y evaluacion de estudiantes de fisica ante examenes cerrados

Juan Jose. Jimenez-Torres ยท 2023

In this work, I present an automatic system for the evaluation of closed-type exercises in physics at the high school level or in the first year of a degree where physics is a mandatory course. It is โ€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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Methods to Simplify Object Tracking in Video Data

Chris Orban, Scott Zimmerman, Jessica T. Kulp, Jennifer Boughton, Zach Perrico, Brianna Rapp, Richelle Teeling-Smith ยท 2022

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in analyzing the motion of objects in video data as a way for students to connect the concepts of physics to something tangible like a video recording oโ€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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Desarrollo de experiencias para la ense\~nanza y difusion de la Optica con impresion 3D

Roberto Peyton, Damian Presti, Jeffry H. Martinez Valdiviezo, Fabian Videla, Gustavo Adrian Torchia ยท 2021

In this work, we present three experiences developed with 3D printing technology for teaching in Optics. These activities were planned, designed, and implemented to go deeper into knowledge about lighโ€ฆ

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The Superconducting Transition and Mixed State of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$: An Undergraduate Experiment

Zhongda Huang, Yihang Tong, Jake S. Bobowski ยท 2021

We describe a simple AC susceptometer built in-house that can be used to make high-resolution measurements of the magnetic susceptibility of high-temperature superconductors in an undergraduate physicโ€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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Two blocks connected by a string with variable tension: A dynamic case

H. J. Herrera Suarez, M. Machado - Higuera, J. H. Munoz ยท 2020

In this paper, the dynamic case of a system made up of two blocks connected by a string over a smooth pulley is revisited. One mass lies on a horizontal surface without friction, and the other mass haโ€ฆ

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