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Newton's geometric demonstration of Kepler's second law (left) and a Feynma...
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in Argumentation in Physics Education Research: Recent Trends and Key Themes
> The International Handbook of Physics Education Research: Learning Physics
Published: March 2023
FIG. 16.4 Newton's geometric demonstration of Kepler's second law (left) and a Feynman diagram representing electron–positron interaction (right). More about this image found in Newton's geometric demonstration of Kepler's second law (left) and a Feynma...
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(a) Micromachined interferometric accelerometer showing the two optical bea...
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in Optical MEMS (Microspheres and Ring Resonators): Overview of Recent Progress
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Published: March 2023
FIG. 7.18 (a) Micromachined interferometric accelerometer showing the two optical beams, one from the diffraction grating and second from the mirror, which will interfere at the photodetector. (b) SiN nanobeam pair acting as “zipper” photonic crystal optomechanical cavity for accelerometry More about this image found in (a) Micromachined interferometric accelerometer showing the two optical bea...
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FIG. 1.11 Second order in t (think of perturbation theory with an energy denominator). More about this image found in Second order in t (think of perturbation theory with an en...
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Student Understanding of Thermal Physics
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425477_003
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2547-7
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... required a blended course (e.g., “Thermal and Statistical Physics” or “Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics’) and 14 required Thermal Physics. Thermodynamics is a core topic included in introductory textbooks; most standard texts include chapters on the ideal gas law and the first and second laws...
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References
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... ). 10.1080/03057267.2011.604476 Fortus , D. and Krajcik , J. , Second International Handbook of Science Education , edited by B. J. Fraser et al. ( Springer Netherlands , 2012 ), pp. 783 – 798 , see http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/978-1-4020-9041-7 Laws , P. W...
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Two Perspectives on Physics Problem Solving and Their Relation to Adaptive Expertise
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425477_010
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... informs equation selection and implementation, and has developed instruction for scaffolding this initial conceptual analysis in students' problem solving. A second thread focuses on physics problem solving as part of the practice of learning and making sense of physics. In contrast...
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Textbook and Curriculum Alignment
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_015
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..., the goal is to find out the alignment level and extension of these elements. A review of this type of existing articles will be presented in a later section. The second way would be to consider the physics textbooks as an independent variable, posing two general research questions: This type of research...
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Physics Teacher Professional Learning
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425712_015
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2571-2
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... (mainly lower-second level) experienced all three components in their initial teacher education. Most teachers also reported holding at least one higher education degree (50% completed a bachelor's degree or equivalent, and 44% achieved a master's degree or equivalent). However, in some countries...
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Physics in K-12 Integrated Science Curricula
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425477_021
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... of a consistent meaning of energy as a single quantifiable and measurable concept may restrict its use as a crosscutting concept that connects different scientific contexts ( Lehavi and Eylon, 2018 ). Our second case study is the concept of energy. As mentioned above, crosscutting concepts (CCCs) are expected...
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425712_007
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2571-2
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... of periodicity. The first phase of the study focuses on Greek textbooks' practices in presenting the conceptual domains of periodicity, while the second phase sheds light on teachers' emphasis and practices while teaching such concepts. Particularly, it is investigated how scientific and pedagogical practices...
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Physics Teacher Education for Early Science Learners
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425712_013
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2571-2
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... of children [maximum 14 children per group in the first age group (0–3 years) and 24 in the second (3–6 years)]. Children can be enrolled from the age of 11 months and the focus in the first years (0–3 years) is on socialization, communication, play, and general learning about themselves, society...
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Students' Understandings of Electricity and Magnetism
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Published: March 2023
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..., magnetism, and special relativity. Second, it is not always possible to separate research on the understanding of the subject matter from the research method or the way the learning took place. For this reason, we have included a brief description of the research methods or instruments used in all papers...
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425477_007
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... imagine you stand and observe the moon for just a few seconds—you do not perceive movement. But if you walk across the meadow while tracking the moon, you might say “it is following me.” When pointing to the moon, your outstretched arm maintains a constant orientation relative to your body...
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425590_001
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2559-0
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... our definitions of stress and strain to describe infinitesimal, multi-axial deformation of a three-dimensional continuum body, we find them to be symmetric, second-rank tensors with six independent components. See Malgrange et al. (2014) , Sadd (2009) , Nye et al. (1985...
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Epilogue
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... ). A few years later, Eric Rogers, in a footnote in his 1969 Oersted response paper, describes an experiment with his students. He found that students could not explain the meaning of Newton's Second Law even though they were quite good at calculations using the Second Law ( Rogers, 1969 ). Several...
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Control-Oriented Hybrid Modeling Framework for Building Thermal Modeling
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425743_009
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2574-3
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... to minimize the parameter estimation bias resulting from the time correlation between the known and unknown inputs. The first approach uses an estimate-then-predict approach to the predict unknown disturbances. The second adopts a direct prediction approach of the unknown disturbances during training...
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Published: March 2023
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EISBN: 978-0-7354-2571-2
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... environment ( Deterding et al., 2011 ; and Monterrat et al., 2017 ). The second category of extreme importance is the game design elements and mechanics. Time constraints and cooperative and competitive play have many researchers as opposing results on their impact on students have...
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Holistic Learning Environments
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425712_008
EISBN: 978-0-7354-2571-2
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... all aspects of students' learning physics either in one course or throughout several courses (i.e., it cannot be just a “lecture” component, or a “lab component”); second, the educational approach and the physical setting need to be consistent and supportive of the intentionalities, which need...
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Characterizing Lab Environments Using Activity Theory
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Published: March 2023
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... environments so that the examples can also be followed more easily. Thus, the first column labeled Activity Theory Dimension represents the vertices depicted in Fig. 10.1 . The second column indicates the corresponding question that needs to be considered from a general Activity Systems perspective. The third...
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Fluids in Equilibrium and Hydrodynamics
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... fields, and vector differential and integral calculus to interpret flow physics through conservation laws; using Newton's second law to the analysis of fluids at rest and in movement; applying mass, momentum, and energy conservation to steady flows; interpreting and applying laminar and turbulent flow...
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