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Published: March 2023
FIG. 8.2 Several studies conducted on student learning have been aimed at establishing how students acquire a quantum view of phenomena using phenomenographic methods (top left) or quantum-classic index (top right). In both types of research, different types of questions are used, sometimes also More about this image found in Several studies conducted on student learning have been aimed at establishi...
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...Acknowledgments The authors acknowledge Dr. G. Madhusudhan Reddy, Outstanding Scientist and Director, DMRL Hyderabad for the constant encouragements. The authors also acknowledge Dr. S. Pandian, Scientist (Retd.), DMRL and Dr. Himalay Basumatary, Scientist, DMRL for the support rendered at various...
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...Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge the scientific, technical, and project staff of CSIR-CEERI, India for their technical support. They are also grateful to CSIR, India for providing the financial support and research facilities to carry out the research work reported...
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Acknowledgments
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... of Peter Shaffer, Edwin Taylor, Paula Heron, Daniel Styer, Thomas Moore, Marisa Michelini, and Bryce Johnson and the Science for Monks and Nuns program, all of whom have enriched our thinking about relativity in manifold ways. We also gratefully acknowledge the long-term support of our research...
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Perspective on Strain Effects on 2D Materials
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... materials research and revolutionized the field of nanotechnology due to its extraordinary electronic properties. This has also opened up new avenues for emergent properties such as the topological Dirac states and room temperature integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) ( Geim and Novoselov, 2007...
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Front Matter
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... for graduate students working in energy system design, control, and optimization. It is also useful for practitioners working in the power and sustainable energy industries. Energy production transmission and distribution (Energy) Electrical grid (Energy) Applied computer science (Interdisciplinary physics...
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Research on Gender, Intersectionality, and LGBTQ+ Persons in Physics Education Research
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... training but also from a need to be perceived as doing “real physics” in order to belong (and stay employed in) physics departments. 1 Thus, it stems at least partly from the social system of science and academia, rather than from what research questions are the most wide-reaching or most...
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Physics Teacher Education for Early Science Learners
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.... Introduction Early childhood is a time of curiosity, exploration, play, and, also importantly, learning. The learning curve in early childhood is extremely fast because in the first ten years of life, children learn to move, communicate, work in groups, read, write, ask questions, and so on. During...
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Pre-Service Physics Teacher Education
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... (2008) has also identified the teacher as the most important influencing factor for students' learning outside of the students themselves. It is the teacher who creates learning opportunities to engage students in investigating relevant phenomena ( NGSS Lead States, 2013 ). In turn, the creation...
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Sound and Waves
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... of the principles before mathematics. Difficulties with graphs Studies have found that students have problems relating position vs time, velocity vs time, and acceleration vs time graphs ( Somroob and Wattanakasiwich, 2017 ). They also have problems drawing a graph with an appropriate phase ( Somroob...
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Role of Mathematics in Physics from Multiple Perspectives
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... as it is understood today but also was at the origin of deep mathematics research. In addition, this example also shows that not only abstract thinking but also visual representations are important. The question of a notation that supports thinking and allows manipulation is by no means trivial. That a suggestive...
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... not only on how well students are educated in general, but also on how well this is accomplished in science and especially in physics ( European Commission, 2012 ). PER acknowledges the importance of physics, which is reflected in the everyday life of the world, on its need to better understand...
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Teaching Practices
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... to this area of research are rare, and even more so in physics education. This is also the reason why this chapter traces the current state of research in this field rather than its evolution over many years, even if some precursory work is mentioned in this introduction. Thus, science teaching practices were...
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Physics as a Human Endeavor
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... of backgrounds differently enmeshed in social and cultural contexts, and also engaged with a rich range of ideological, political, economic and religious commitments. It might be traced back to the egalitarian spirit of the 1948 United Nations “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” which in its 26th and 27th...
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Optimization of Solar Photovoltaic Hybrid Energy Systems
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... Energy resources are an important substantial foundation for people to live and work, which are also indispensable for the functioning of the global economic system ( Razi and Dincer, 2022 ). With the rapid development of industrialization and living standards across the globe, energy security has become...
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Methods and Practices in Physics
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... the philosophy (and history) of science; however, it parallels the development within physics education. Also here, there was (and still is) the tendency to claim a unique “scientific method” by which facts of nature are discovered. 3 Although it was acknowledged already in the 19th century...
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Graphs
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... important in physics but also in other sciences. It is essential for understanding today's world and is one of the main elements of scientific literacy ( Glazer, 2011 ). Researchers and instructors recognize the importance for students to develop an understanding of graphs so that they can interpret...
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Physics in K-12 Integrated Science Curricula
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... and displacement (or pressure and volume) that are used to quantify the concept of work. Energy is also often presented as a matter-like entity that has many “types” ( Nordine et al., 2011 ) or forms ( Kaper and Goedhart, 2002a , 2002b ). In fact, even policy documents introduce energy as having various...
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History of Physics and Socio-Scientific Issues: Approaching Gender and Social Justice
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..., physics teaching, and science education have professed the importance of educating people to figure out contemporary problems, including more complex ones that demand interdisciplinary approaches, which involve not only physics but also different fields of natural sciences, human sciences and social...
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Teaching and Learning Optics at the Secondary Level
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... processes, book chapters and books; that may limit the representativeness of our sample. However, we believe that peer-review is not only a standard in educational research, we also see it as a prerequisite for discourse within a scientific community, and peer-review thus reflects the discursive character...
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