College Physics

College Physics

A aberration, 949 aberrations, 947 absolute pressure, 368, 388 absolute zero, 431, 461 ac current, 711, 722 ac voltage, 711, 722 acceleration, 43, 75, 126, 153 acceleration due to gravity, 62, 75 accommodation, 931, 949 accuracy, 25, 31 acoustic impedance , 615, 620 active transport, 419, 419 activity, 1131, 1140 adaptive optics, 947, 949 adhesive forces, 377, 388 adiabatic, 515 adiabatic proce...

Preparing physics majors for secondary-level teaching: the education concentration in the Haverford College physics program

Reinventing College Physics for Biologists: Explicating an epistemological curriculum

The University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group (UMd-PERG) carried out a five-year research project to rethink, observe, and reform introductory algebra-based (college) physics. This class is one of the Maryland Physics Department’s large service courses, serving primarily life-science majors. After consultation with biologists, we re-focused the class on helping the students learn ...

Research on computer - based educational activities for introductory college physics

Text Classification of Student Self-Explanations in College Physics Questions

This study looks at the text data generated from the Asynchronous Peer Instruction tool, DALITE. The goals of this work are two-fold: i) to determine whether the words students use in their self-explanations can be predictive of their success on the related multiple-choice item, or even reveal their uncertainty about the concept being tested; and, ii) to determine if the collection of words use...