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Series: AIPP Books, Perspectives
Published: September 2022
10.1063/9780735421721_021
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2172-1
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2173-8
... ideas about tunneling (see below). Bohr's reaction was to ask him if he would like to come to the Institute to work. “Yes,” he said. Bohr took the phone and called the Carlsberg Breweries' managing director and told him that he had a visit from a very important young Russian physicist. Would Carlsberg...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_012
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... and now had a clearly coherent view of the nature of science (NOS). Kalman (2010) explored the progress of eight students throughout the course. Their views on the NOS on the first and last days of class are found in Table 12.1 . Bearing in mind the anti-philosophy comments of our physicists...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_006
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... ( University of Chicago Press , Chicago , 2006 ). Traweek , S. , Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists ( Harvard University Press , Cambridge, MA , 1988 ). Traxler , A. L.   et al. , Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res.   12 ( 2 ), 020114 ( 2016 ). 10.1103...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_003
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... Society , Early Career Physicists and APS ( 2018 ). Traxler , A. and Blue , J. , Physics Education and Gender: Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research , edited by A. J.   Gonsalves and A. T.   Danielsson ( Springer International Publishing , 2020 ), pp. 129 – 152 . 10.1007...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_004
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... rate for white students in the physical sciences and mathematics is 52%, whereas it is only 37% for African American students ( Sowell et al., 2008 ). Moreover, a study by Quichocho et al. (2019) found that the image of the stereotypical physicist (intelligent white male) precludes...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425712_012
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2571-2
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2568-2
... Public Engagement with Physics Informal Physics Learning Spaces / Informal Education Spaces Physics Communication (one directional. From expert to audience, generally static, but some overlap with public engagement with physics) Physics Outreach (one direction physicists/educators → others) Out-of-School...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_007
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
.../a/the-scientific-sublime/#:∼:text=Physicists%20use%20sublime%20to%20indicate,below%20the%20critical%2Dpoint%20threshold for “The scientific sublime” ( 2017 ). Croce , K. A. and Firestone , J. B. , Developing Science Literacy in the 21st Century ( Information Age Publishing , 2020 ). Cushing...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... ). Charlton , K. , Rock Music Styles: A History ( McGraw Hill , 2014 ). Choi , K.   et al. , J. Res. Sci. Teach.   48 ( 6 ), 670 – 697 ( 2011 ). 10.1002/tea.20424 Crease , R. P. , see https://physicsworld.com/a/the-scientific-sublime/#:∼:text=Physicists%20use%20sublime%20to...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425477_014
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2547-7
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2544-6
...., 2018 ). In Marya's learning to feel less anxious about her vexation and more comfortable with not immediately being correct, an identity-focused researcher might see her as in the process of becoming a certain type of physicist or physics learner ( Radoff et al., 2019 ). The classroom...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_013
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... anxiety after Sputnik and became amply supported with government funding ( Rudolph, 2002 ). Meticulously prepared and researched by physicists and teachers, these courses were widely adopted across the United States and internationally. Project Physics employed historical contextualization...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_018
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... in the first place. On the other hand Greca and Moreira (2002) take into account the learner (or physicist) who has to build mental models of the mathematical syntax and the physics semantics and their interrelation. They describe the relation of physical and mathematical models as well as their intertwining...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425712_008
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2571-2
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2568-2
...., 2018 ; and McPadden et al., 2020 , and PET— Goldberg et al., 2010 ). As the curricula shift focus from information transfer toward knowledge construction, many of the HLEs simultaneously aim to have students thinking more like physicists either in the ways in which they solve...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_022
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
...; there remains lots of unexplored intellectual terrain. Teaching introductory physics, I try to convince students to embrace confusion and uncertainty. I tell them that physicists are professional learners and that being confused for a physicist is like breathing hard for a runner: It's what you're supposed...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425477_016
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2547-7
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2544-6
...) elaborated, through a video illustration along with a text-based manuscript, the component selection and proper mounting of both diodes and gratings as well as the factors affecting the mode selection within the cavity (Fig. 16.6 ). Throughout history, physicists have played a significant role in public...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_002
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... ) and how it negatively impacts women. Another qualitative research involved interviews with five women physics students to understand their identity as physicists ( Danielsson, 2012 ). The study showed that some of the women adapted themselves to relate to the masculine norms of the discipline. For example...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_008
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... retraction and reparation, and scientific literacy that is truly liberating ( Freire, 1970 ). In this sense, the study on the academic trajectory of Austrian physicist Lise Meitner (1878–1968), from the perspective of feminist criticism of science, offers sufficient elements to discuss how to explore SSI...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_010
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... known examples of this is the Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner, who was deprived of a share of the Nobel Prize, which was awarded exclusively to her long-time collaborator Otto Hahn ( Rossiter, 1993 , p. 329). The problem is, of course, that these cases are typically not well-known. 16...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
Book Chapter
Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... Society , Early Career Physicists and APS ( 2018 ). Traxler , A. and Blue , J. , Physics Education and Gender: Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research , edited by A. J.   Gonsalves and A. T.   Danielsson ( Springer International Publishing , 2020 ), pp. 129 – 152 . 10.1007...
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Series: AIPP Books, Professional
Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_025
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2551-4
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2548-4
... is the study by Irving and Sayre (2015) , who provides a detailed description of the coding and analysis methods they used in a series of interviews focusing on students' perceptions of what it means to be a physicist. The interview sample was composed of students recruited from upper-level physics courses...