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Onorato, Pasquale; Rosi, Tommaso; Tufino, Eugenio; Caprara, Caterina; Malgieri, Massimiliano – Physics Education, 2021
In times of the explosion of distance learning, because of emergency due to the pandemic, smartphone sensors and cameras are extremely valuable for teachers as they allow students to perform significant experimental activities in their own homes. The open-source software Tracker can be used in combination with the smartphone camera to perform…
Descriptors: Photography, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Light
Wannous, Jarier; Kovác, Milan – Physics Teacher, 2021
Archimedes' principle has been and still is a complicated concept to understand by introductory students, especially as typically stated in physics textbooks. Take for example its statement by Bierman: "When a body is fully or partially submerged in a fluid, a buoyant force from the surrounding fluid acts on the body. The force is directed…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Educational Technology, Measurement
Medel-Esquivel, Ricardo; Gómez-Vargas, Isidro; García-Salcedo, Ricardo; Vázquez, J. Alberto – Physics Teacher, 2021
One of the main topics of elementary physics is the idea that every material is composed of "little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one other." These particles could be atoms or molecules. Atoms are the smallest part into…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, College Science, Scientific Concepts, Motion
Lagares, Antonio, Jr.; Garavaglia, Matías Javier; Robledo, Natalia Belén; Valverde, Claudio; Goñi, Sandra Elizabeth; Lozano, Mario Enrique – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
Regulation is a key concept for understanding the dynamics of metabolism in bacteria. This report outlines a simple laboratory experiment aimed at studying a key form of regulation in bacterial metabolism, exemplifying how microbes switch the flux of carbon towards alternative metabolic fates as a function of nutrient availability and according to…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Biochemistry, Visualization, Laboratory Experiments
Herceg, Ðorde; Herceg, Dejana – Informatics in Education, 2020
Connecting theory and practice in teaching is sometimes difficult, as it requires expensive or delicate equipment, thus limiting the teacher to giving demonstrations in which students are passive participants. Numerical mathematics, as an applied discipline, should be taught on real world examples. By using inexpensive Arduino hardware, we can…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Computer Software
Ribeiro, Jair Lúcio Prados – Physics Teacher, 2015
Human eye optics is a common high school physics topic and students usually show a great interest during our presentation of this theme. In this article, we present an easy way to estimate a diverging lens' optical power from a simple experiment involving myopia eyeglasses and a smartphone flashlight.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Optics, High School Students
Zheng, Yuan; Huang, Zewei; Yang, Yanbin – Physics Teacher, 2021
As intriguing optical phenomena that occur in nature, mirages are widely known and often mentioned in physics classes when introducing the basics of optics. In the atmosphere, a mirage occurs under the condition of vertical variations in air density, which are usually caused by a temperature gradient. The light rays are continuously refracted and…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Optics, Teaching Methods
Den Auwer, Christophe; Bayle, Simon; Beccia, Maria Rosa; Bosio, Sandra; Creff, Gaëlle; Jeanson, Aurélie; Michel, Hervé; Pitiot, Christophe; Zurita, Cyril – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
As part of their third-year general chemistry program, students at the University of the Côte d'Azur are taught the basics of radioactivity. The view that third-year university students have of the periodic Table of the Elements is often reduced because it ignores the vast majority of isotopes. As part of this program, a practicum devoted to the…
Descriptors: Radiation, Chemistry, College Science, Science Instruction
Kajiya, Daisuke – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
This paper provides seven topics on sodium hydrogen carbonate (NaHCO[subscript 3]) and its ions for readers looking for familiar material phenomena to strengthen students' understanding of the chemical concepts of thermodynamics. The first concept is the ideal gas law, followed by the van't Hoff equation, Gibbs energy, pH change, chemical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Concept Formation
Benz, Gregor; Buhlinger, Carsten; Ludwig, Tobias – Physics Education, 2022
With the availability of educational digital data acquisition systems, it has also become possible in physics education to generate 'big' data sets by (a) measuring multiple variables simultaneously, (b) increasing the sample rate, (c) extending the measurement duration, or (d) choosing a combination among these three options. In the context of…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learning Analytics, Data Analysis
Planinsic, G.; Gregorcic, B.; Etkina, E. – Physics Education, 2014
This paper introduces the readers to simple inquiry-based activities (experiments with supporting questions) that one can do with a computer scanner to help students learn and apply the concepts of relative motion in 1 and 2D, vibrational motion and the Doppler effect. We also show how to use these activities to help students think like…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Science Experiments
Haugland, Ole Anton – Physics Teacher, 2019
Students should have a strong conceptual understanding of the connection between force and acceleration before they start working with applications and problem solving. This has been discussed in the literature. During these days of flipped classroom instruction, an at-home activity could be especially valuable. I will describe an experiment with…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods
Levine, Zachary H. – Physics Teacher, 2018
An attempt to calibrate a conventional oven led to making a measurement of a thermophysical property of water using items found in the author's home. Specifically, the ratio of the energy required to heat water from the melting point to boiling to the energy required to completely boil away the water is found to be 5.7. This may be compared to the…
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, Heat, Water, Science Education
Theilmann, Florian – Physics Education, 2022
Ever since Newton's groundbreaking work on the composed nature of light, additive colour mixing (and its laws) are subject to the interest of physicists as well as other sciences. In this paper, we present a setup for simple lab or home experiments on additive colour mixing and the laws of colour mixing. Students use the screen of a laptop or…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Hands on Science, Physics
Kajiya, Daisuke – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
This paper reports a demonstration of a 90 min on-demand class where a chemical experiment is performed to educate nonscience majors on surfactants. First-year undergraduate students perform the water ball in a water bottle experiment at home and learn about the structure and properties of organic compounds in the demonstration. The experiment is…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Science Instruction, Nonmajors, Undergraduate Students