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Focus on Physics: When Our Round Earth Was First Measured
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Building an understanding of physical principles. This month's issue discusses the methods Eratosthenes used to measure the roundness of Earth.
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Focus on Physics: Newton’s (Often Misunderstood) Third Law of Motion
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This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. The author discusses misconceptions about Newton’s third law.
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Application of the K-W-L Teaching and Learning Method to an Introductory Physics Course
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The K-W-L method of teaching is a simple method that actively engages students in their own learning. It has been used with kindergarten and elementary grades to teach other subjects. The authors have successfully used…
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Integrating a Single Tablet PC in Chemistry, Engineering, and Physics Courses
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A tablet PC is a versatile computer that combines the computing power of a notebook with the pen functionality of a PDA (Cox and Rogers 2005b). The authors adopted tablet PC technology in order to improve the process…
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Guest Editorial: Physics or stamp collecting? Pitfalls of the hierarchy of disciplines
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In science and in academia, there is often a de facto hierarchy of disciplines with the so-called “hard” sciences (physics, chemistry) at the top, and the “soft” sciences (psychology, sociology) at the bottom (Tudge…