Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...
For the experiment, the team worked with experienced physics teachers to develop a teaching unit with 18 lessons about Newtonian mechanics. Four secondary school teachers then spent a day being ...
So Oh. Yeah. Yeah. This is all about having combining the engineering design process and the physics theory. It uses impulse momentum, Newton's laws of motion, and kinematics, which is what they've ...
Alright, I admit it. physics is weird. Which, by extension, surely makes us physics teachers a special bunch. A very different subject from ‘the other two’, looked at in a different way it’s not weird ...
On a breezy spring afternoon at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, designer Jake Barton is watching a pair of middle schoolers chuck an iPod across a playground while another kid films the scene ...
Nearly seventy years ago, before the CERN Laboratory was established, two models for European collaboration in fundamental physics were on the table: one envisaged opening up national facilities to ...