College Physics Course Research Articles

Teaching College Physical Activity Courses Online: Some Considerations

This article discusses some of the challenges faced by faculty and students at the college level and also provides recommendations for future online physical activity courses based on the experiences “forced” upon us by the pandemic.

Tell me a story, professor! The effect of historical science stories on academic achievement and motivation in a physics class

ABSTRACT Background Achieving the targeted of university physics courses and improving student motivation requires varying types of instructional design. One alternative approach to the traditional lecture format involves the use of historical science stories, which are narratives that present episodes from the life of a scientist, as well as characterizing the nature of science, providing students with a historical perspective of the subject being taught and helping them to comprehend and retain the concept. Purpose The purpose of our study was to investigate the effect of using historical science stories (HSS) on the academic achievement and motivation of future teachers. Design and methods A pretest-posttest research design compared two classrooms: one that included the story-based history of science in the teaching the topic of free fall movement and one that did not. Sample A total of 35 preservice science teachers (17 in the experimental group and 18 in the control group) participated in the study. The results showed that the preservice teachers in the experimental group performed better than those in the control group. Results The use of the historical science story-based approach also promoted the motivation of the participants. Analysis of the data revealed that the intervention had a statistically significant effect on the academic achievement of the student teachers. On the other hand, although the motivation scores in the experimental group increased, this increase was not found to be statistically significant. Conclusions The findings of this study support the use of historical science stories to improve academic achievement in higher education. The conclusions reached here may enable teacher educators to introduce historical events in a similar environment to support better comprehension of physics.

Application of Big Data Technology in Smart Sports Teaching Summary

With the advent of the era of big data, the huge amount of complex and diverse data is displayed in front of people. What is changing is people’s living conditions and demand levels. What is worth noting is the influence of big data thinking on people’s view of things. With the rapid development of data and information in the era of big data, physical education educators in Colleges and universities attach importance to the value of data and have the corresponding ability of data processing. The thinking of educational objects is active and the pursuit of individuality makes the environment of physical education in Colleges and universities more complex. Based on the big data era, based on the intelligent sports test platform, this paper conducts a questionnaire survey on college students and teachers. Through the investigation and analysis, it can be seen that at present, college teachers’ innovative cultivation of students’ physical education teaching is significantly insufficient, and less than 5% of teachers pay attention to this aspect. Most students choose more than 60% of college physical education courses for credit exam oriented learning, which needs to be done promote.

Investigating society’s educational debts due to racism and sexism in student attitudes about physics using quantitative critical race theory

The American Physical Society calls on its members to improve the diversity of physics by supporting an inclusive culture that encourages women and Black, Indigenous, and people of color to become physicists. In the current educational system, it is unlikely for a student to become a physicist if they do not share the same attitudes about what it means to learn and do physics as those held by most professional physicists. Evidence shows college physics courses and degree programs do not support students in developing these attitudes. Rather physics education filters out students who do not enter college physics courses with these attitudes. To better understand the role of attitudes in the lack of diversity in physics, we investigated the intersecting relationships between racism and sexism in inequities in student attitudes about learning and doing physics using a critical quantitative framework. The analyses used hierarchical linear models to examine students attitudes as measured by the Colorado learning attitudes about science survey. The data came from the LASSO database and included 2170 students in 46 calculus-based mechanics courses and 2503 students in 49 algebra-based mechanics courses taught at 18 institutions. Like prior studies, we found that attitudes either did not change or slightly decreased for most groups. Results identified large differences across intersecting race and gender groups representing educational debts society owes these students. White students, particularly White men in calculus-based courses, tended to have more expert-like attitudes than any other group of students. Instruction that addresses society's educational debts can help move physics toward an inclusive culture supportive of diverse students and professionals.

Looking past limiting conditions: Prioritizing meaning in EAP

EAP courses by their very nature are designed to help students understand and engage with academic language. Yet what if EAP practices are too far removed from academic discourse that their relevance is compromised? For better or worse, EAP teachers in Content & Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) environments often draw on EAL grammar resources to supplement the development of their situated, content-reliant teaching resources (Harwood, 2005; Lorenzo, 2013). Unfortunately, typical form-focused grammar instruction that relies on idealized, formulaïc structures can result in EAP lessons glossing over crucial concepts in students’ authentic course readings. In this article, we recount our teaching context and the realization of the gap between traditional teaching and grammar reference texts, and the instantiations of various forms of conditional language in authentic academic texts across first year university Political Science, Psychology, Physics and Economics courses. We explore the importance of conditionals and how they are typically presented; the phenomena of grammatical and logical metaphor; and suggest pedagogical activities to facilitate students’ comprehension, application and manipulation of conditional logic in their academic work.

Research on College Physics Online Teaching System Based on Course Group Construction

College physics course based on online teaching system can make the boring theoretical derivation process more intuitive and convenient with the help of the unique characteristics of multimedia technology and tools, so that students’ learning efficiency can be significantly improved, so it has high research value. Based on this, this paper first analyses the current situation and existing problems of college physics course teaching, then studies the necessity of constructing college physics online teaching platform, and finally gives the construction strategy of college physics online teaching system based on the construction of curriculum group.

The Practice and Thinking of Computer Virtual Reality Technology in the Teaching Mode of Physical Education in Colleges and Universities

Today, with the rapid development of computer technology, it can achieve good results to form a set of professional computer virtual technology system and apply it to the PE courses in colleges and universities. This study analyzes the current situation and characteristics of computer virtual technology, the necessity of introducing this technology in the field of college physical education courses, as well as the specific role that this technology can play in the curriculum. The results show that computer virtual reality technology is able to realize the modernization, automation and programming of physical education to some extent.

Frequency doubling in a pendulum

A smartphone is used as a pendulum bob to simultaneously measure the angular velocity and the acceleration of a pendulum. The data show a frequency doubling in the radial acceleration component compared with the angular velocity and the azimuthal acceleration component. This is mainly due to the centrifugal force and is an illustration of frequency doubling in a simple mechanical system. This experiment might be used in first year university physics courses to teach frequency analysis and frequency doubling in a home laboratory.

浅谈大学物理课程中物理概念和规律的教学

浅谈大学物理课程中物理概念和规律的教学

Online Teaching of College Physics with Multi Teaching Methods and Temperature

As a public basic course for undergraduates in science and engineering colleges, college physics course focuses on imparting basic knowledge and scientific research methods, with the significant characteristics of rich teaching content and wide coverage. Exploring an effective teaching mode of college physics has always been the goal of college physics teachers. In the course of COVID-19's destruction, it is urgent to explore the online teaching mode of college physics. This paper explores the integration of college physics teaching methods during the epidemic period, and tries to build a teaching mode that relies on the platform to support the integration of multiple teaching methods. Relying on the MOOC platform of China University, first of all, we provide students with an online learning network space through the asynchronous SPOC of the platform; Secondly, We effectively combine Tencent conference interactive teaching, QQ real-time interaction and MOOC classroom follow-up test as the online classroom teaching scheme; Finally, the multi-dimensional teaching evaluation mode is used to test the learning effect. We share the possible accidents in the online classroom and the author's online teaching experience, trying to make students feel a warm and an effective online college physics classroom during the epidemic specific period.

大学物理课程中“课程思政”的研究与实践

大学物理课程中“课程思政”的研究与实践

What college physical education could do through online lessons in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of students’ view of university physical education course

What college physical education could do through online lessons in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of students’ view of university physical education course

Integration of “Internet+” Teaching for Physical Education and Health Course: A Case Study of Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute

Under the background of “Healthy China 2030”, this research introduces the Wechat platform into the university Physical Education and Health course, creates the Wechat group and the Wechat official account, and carries on the teaching fusion attempt through the sports APP. The results show that endurance, speed and muscle strength of students have been improved significantly, and the physique of students is greatly improved through the integration of “Internet+” teaching attempt.

Balls rolling down a playground slide: What factors influence their motion?

Take a selection of balls and marbles along to a nearby playground slide and let students investigate factors that may influence how balls accelerate down an inclined plane. Students can make hypotheses in small groups, plan investigations to test multiple possible explanations and draw conclusions about the importance of different variables. The experiments illustrate the principle of equivalence between inertial and gravitational mass, as well as of the importance of mass distribution. Students can develop an intuitive feeling for these concepts even without dealing with the full mathematical treatment, which involves torque, angular momentum and moment of inertia, typically treated in high-school or introductory university physics courses. The paper discusses this investigation as part of a setup of teacher professional development events on a playground.

Design and Development of Innovative Education in the Internet Era

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Research the application methods of big data technology in college physical education. Combining the characteristics of big data technology, teaching conditions, etc., analyze the problems existing in the teaching of college physical education, aiming to use the big data analysis system to clarify the reform direction of college physical education through the design of the teaching framework and the coordination of the evaluation plan, and to require physical education teachers under the guidance of the teaching framework, it analyzes the complex problems in teaching, gradually improves the teaching mechanism of physical education courses, and shows the advantages of college physical education courses. Integrating big data with college physical education courses can improve the quality of course teaching and provide a reference for the reform of education models.</span>

Supporting Inclusive Teaching in Introductory College Physics

Even among the sciences, physics stands out as an unusually White- and male-dominated field. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) reports that only 19% of physics faculty are women, and less than 6% of physics faculty are African American or Hispanic. Particularly for female students, the transition from high school to a college major in physics has been identified as the most important point of attrition. As such, undergraduate physics education is a critical juncture where these trends can be interrupted. We approached this problem by using teaching strategies intended to promote inclusiveness in a calculus-based, introductory college physics course, a key requirement in many STEM majors and a gateway to the undergraduate physics major. Proponents of inclusive teaching strategies argue that using such strategies will benefit all students, particularly those from marginalized groups, increase the diversity of physics majors, and ultimately contribute to a more diverse community of physicists.

Buquoy’s problem in an introductory physics course

The Buquoy’s problem represents an interesting example of a one-dimensional motion in which a uniform thin fibre is pulled upwards from a horizontal plane by a constant vertical force exerted against the homogeneous gravitational field. The problem includes several interesting concepts that are developed within the introductory university physics course, like motion with a variable mass, the use of the effective potential and a solution of a non-linear ODE of the second order, which provides an opportunity for some numerical modelling of the motion. It is a specific example of damped oscillations and according to our experience it can be discussed e.g. within a course in classical mechanics. Our contribution concentrates on the correspondence between a theoretical model and the experimental realization of this problem, which can be demonstrated in a standard classroom. In our set, the upward force is represented by buoyancy acting on a helium filled balloon. The experiment helps to develop some other competences of the students and naturally leads to a little bit more general mathematical model with an equation of motion that includes the constant mass of the helium ball and the dumping resistance force.

Research on the Promotion Strategy of Multimedia Network Educational Platform in College Sports Education

With the gradual innovation of informational technology in China, various industries have carried out innovative reforms. As we all know, the practice of physical education can exercise students’ physical quality and enhance their resistance. It can also educate the students in ideology and moral character. As the application of network education platform is extensive, the application of platform in college sports education is the focus of physical education reform. This paper analyzes the benefit and importance of the application of network sports teaching in college physical education courses, and finally gives the corresponding conclusions.

A Practice of Mixed Teaching Modes in University Physics Course Based on an Application Called Rain Classroom

A Practice of Mixed Teaching Modes in University Physics Course Based on an Application Called Rain Classroom

Perceived relevance of university physics problems by pre-service physics teachers: personal constructs

ABSTRACTPre-service physics teachers often do not recognise the relevance for their future career in their university content knowledge courses. A lower perceived relevance can, however, have a negative effect on their motivation and on their academic success. Several intervention studies have been undertaken with the goal to increase this perceived relevance. A previous study shows that conceptual physics problems used in university physics courses are perceived by pre-service physics teachers as more relevant for their future career than regular, quantitative problems. It is however not clear, what the students’ meaning of the construct ‘relevance’ is: what makes a problem more relevant to them than another problem? To answer this question, N = 7 pre-service teachers were interviewed using the repertory grid technique, based on the personal construct theory. Nine physics problems were discussed with regards to their perceived relevance and with regards to problem properties that distinguish these problems from each other. We are able to identify six problem properties that have a positive influence on the perceived relevance. Physics problems that are based on these properties should therefore potentially have a higher perceived relevance, which can have a positive effect on the motivation of the pre-service teachers who solve these problems.