Chandra Turpen, Melissa Dancy, and Charles Henderson Department of Physics, University of Maryland–College Park, College Park, Maryland 20782, USA Department of Physics, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Department of Physics and Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, USA (Received 3 December 2014; published ...

This article describes the successful revitalization of an undergraduate physics program. The areas of curriculum development, undergraduate research experiences and advising and retention, to name a few, are emphasized in this interconnecting and systematic approach whereby each and every effort combines to get results. The program can be used by other physics departments wishing to improve an...

Mustafa Kamal, Abu-Bakr El-BediwiTamer Dawod* and Adel. S. Waqlan** Metal Physics Lab. Physics Department, Faculty of Science –Mansoura University, Egypt. * Medical Physics Unit, Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Dept., Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University **On leave, M.sc student, Ministry of Higher Education, Yemen. [email protected], [email protected] [email protected]...

The Vocabulary of Introductory Physics and Its Implications for Learning Physics Salomon F. Itza-Ortiz, N. Sanjay Rebello and Dean Zollman Kansas State University, Department of Physics, Physics Education Research Group, Manhattan KS, 66506 and Manuel Rodriguez-Achach Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Fac. de Ingenieria, Ave. Industrias nocontaminantes, A.P. 150 Cordemex, Yucatan, Mexico, C.P. 9...

Why Change? For many decades, calculus-based introductory physics course sequences—henceforth, “University physics”—have provided the foundation of the outstanding science and engineering programs at many of our nation’s large research universities, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). These courses, many substantially unchanged since the postSputnik science educatio...

1 Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, 2 Center of Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, 3 Institute of Nuclear Physics and C...

1 First Cardiology Clinic, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, 2 Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, 3 Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, 4 Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, RIKEN Bra...