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Sound and Waves
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Published: March 2023
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...Faletič, S., “Sound and waves,” in The International Handbook of Physics Education Research: Learning Physics, edited by M. F. Taşar and P. R. L. Heron (AIP Publishing, Melville, New York, 2023), pp. 1-1–1-34. Relying on equations Tongnopparat et al. (2014) found that students...
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in Impact of Strain on the Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of III-Nitride Semiconductor Heterostructures
> Strain Engineering in Functional Materials and Devices
Published: March 2023
FIG. 3.7 Variation of energy bands (valence band maximum Ev and conduction band minimum Ec) with periodic dilation of a lattice wave (elongation and conduction). More about this image found in Variation of energy bands (valence band maximum Ev...
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... (Fletcher and Johnston, 1999) level: Undergraduate (usable also in High school) Photoelectric effect Light emission by a source Bohr atom Macrosystems Photons emitted by a source Photoelectric effect H. principle Wave atom Wave-particle dualism Relation energy-orbit...
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Research Studies on Learning Quantum Physics
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425477_008
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... of three distinct levels: conceptual, formal, and representative, using different subject referents (e.g., wave function or Dirac notation), rather than a different form of representations (e.g., graphs of probability amplitudes or probability distributions) ( Ireson, 2000 ; Singh, 2001 , 2006 , 2007...
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Assessment of Conceptual Understanding in Physics
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Published: March 2023
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...), ( Engelhardt and Beichner, 2004 ), Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA) ( Ding et al., 2006 ), Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory (LSCI) ( Bardar et al., 2007 ), Mechanical Waves Conceptual Survey ( Tongchai et al., 2009 ), Four-Tier Geometrical Optics Test (FTGOT...
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Teaching and Learning Optics at the Secondary Level
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... on teaching/learning optics. Goals, Scopes, and Methods of Analysis Light can be described in different ways: Within classical optics, geometrical optics and wave optics are often distinguished from each other. This division of optics into sub-areas also reflects optics' historical development or various...
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Philosophy of Physics: Its Significance for Teaching and Learning
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..., 2010 ); Ampère vs Biot on electromagnetism ( Braga et al., 2012 ); Fresnel vs Laplace, Biot, and Poisson on light as a wave ( Kalman, 2010 ); Mach's instrumentalist view vs Planck's realist view of the nature of atoms, and not least, Bohr's willingness to abandon the laws of conservation...
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Radioactivity, Radiation, and Particle Physics in General
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... ( Kenny et al., 2019 ) or converted webcams (e.g., Gross et al., 2005 ). UV radiation can be introduced, e.g., using UV beads or sunglasses and sunscreens ( Abney and Scalettar, 1998 ). Mobile phone radiation can also be used to teach electromagnetic waves ( Abdul-Razzaq, 2015 ). More...
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The trial wave functions for the first three quantum states. These wave fun...
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FIG. 3.4 The trial wave functions for the first three quantum states. These wave functions satisfy all requirements except the normalization requirement. More about this image found in The trial wave functions for the first three quantum states. These wave fun...
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Textbook and Curriculum Alignment
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... is an independent variable whose visual characteristics influence (together with other independent variables) students' knowledge (Learned Curriculum). Authors affirm that physics textbook illustrations of standing waves in a pipe are not easy to understand because even a single illustration includes various...
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The International Handbook of Physics Education Research: Learning Physics
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Holistic Learning Environments
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... and magnetism, quantum mechanics). In the Paradigms environment, junior-level courses (these are called Paradigms) are organized around concepts underlying the physics subfields (e.g., energy, symmetry, forces, wave motion). Therefore, the content is arranged differently and certain topics...
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in Optical MEMS (Microspheres and Ring Resonators): Overview of Recent Progress
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Published: March 2023
and change its reflection spectrum. (b) Schematic of a MEMS ring laser gyroscope with movable mirrors and lens. ( Hashimoto et al., 2009 ). (c) Schematic of a passive resonant optical gyroscope using a fiber ring. The phase modulators are driven by antiphase triangular waves to reduce parasitic More about this image found in (a) Vertical pendulum tilt sensor ( Dong et al., 2005 ) wi...
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Instruments for Diagnosing Students’ Conceptions of Optical Phenomena
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...) and What is polarization of light? In the experimental task, the students were to design and perform an experiment. The authors expected the students to take the known polarizer and place one of the unmarked slides in front of it, but many of the students misapplied their knowledge of geometrical and wave...
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.... , Semiconductor Physics and Devices: Basic Principles , Vol. 3 ( McGraw-Hill , New York , 2003 ). Penn , D. R. , “ Wave-number-dependent dielectric function of semiconductors ,” Phys. Rev. 128 , 2093 – 2097 ( 1962 ). 10.1103/PhysRev.128.2093 Perdew , J. P. , Burke , S...
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The Interplay between Coherent Instruction and Learning Progressions
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... States, 2013 ; and Sullanmaa et al., 2019 ). For example, the U.S. Next Generation Science Standards identifies just four core ideas across physical science: matter and its interactions, motion and stability, energy, and waves. These core ideas are intended to be built over the course of many...
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... ,” Appl. Energy 276 , 115537 ( 2020 ). 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115537 Inoue , D. and Yoshida , H. , “ Model predictive control for finite input systems using the D-Wave quantum annealer ,” Sci. Rep. 10 ( 1 ), 1 – 10 ( 2020 ). 10.1038/s41598-019-56847-4 Koch , D...
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Epistemic Models of Sensemaking and Reasoning
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... ( Podolefsky and Finkelstein, 2006 , 2007a , 2007b ). They started by examining students' answers to conceptual questions about electromagnetic waves across three treatments: a tutorial that included an analogy to waves in a string, a tutorial that included an analogy to sound waves, and a tutorial...
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First Principles Modeling of Strain Induced Effects in Functional Materials
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Published: March 2023
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... ] , The total wave function ψ in the above equation includes spatial as well as spin wave functions. Hohenberg and Kohn also defined a functional, E[n, Vext] for any given electron-nuclear interaction potential Vext and showed that it satisfies...
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Epistemic Beliefs and Physics Teacher Education
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Published: March 2023
10.1063/9780735425514_011
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... understand the process of knowing and the certainty of knowledge claims and in the corresponding ways that they justify their beliefs.” ( King, 2000 , p. 37). As with many in the emerging wave of the cognitive revolution (leaving behind neo-behaviorist theories), the authors were critical towards...
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