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Resources for Physics Teachers
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Insights An Accurate Hooke's Law Laboratory - Comments
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Insights An Accurate Simple Harmonic Oscillator Laboratory - Comments
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Resources for Math Teachers
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Teaching Differential Calculus as the Limit of Discrete Calculus
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Style of teaching/learning mathematics: by proofs of theorems only?
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Are there any really good resources on modelling with differential equations?
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Where (what) is an orbit? Where is Space?
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How to study physics? (Question for students and instructors)
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Rant about working in the tutoring lab: How should I deal with this?
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Stephen Wolfram explains how ChatGPT works
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Need some help, I'm building a state of art STEM community center and Makerspace
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IBDP physics - new spec and SL/HL combined classes
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Student Course Review for my 12 y/o ESL science student in Japan
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Motivating high school Physics students with Popcorn Physics
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High school physics problem sheets and tests
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Insights Opinion: When Pro Scientists Explain Using Pop Science
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Is the objectivity of math assessment testing a myth?
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How is Physics taught without Calculus?
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AAPT 2023 Physics Bowl Blunder
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Teaching the quadratic equation and the roots
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What to cover in a differential equations module?
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Quantum Explorers 2023 - Game-based Quantum Computing course by IBM
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Are Recent Students All Google Crazy?
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What are ways to learn/play with electricity at 6 years of age?
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Insights A Lesson In Teaching Physics: You Can’t Give It Away
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Thinking about quitting teaching
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Magdeburg hemispheres - safety precautions
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Plagiarism & ChatGPT: Is Cheating with AI the New Normal?
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Anybody with experience with SciPod?
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Scaffolding questions on tests
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Doppler effect sound samples
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Interactive lessons using PhET Sims and quizzes
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Who's tried Ungrading in STEM courses?
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MHB What is the best way to introduce Laplace transforms in an Engineering Mathematics course?
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Introduction to pure mathematics
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Using PASCO's FFT Ap for Investigation 16D
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phyphox free cell phone app for sensors
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Using air core solenoids in a lab exercise
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Physicists in Industry - Action Needed
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Technical questions from grad students on their research
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Simple overestimate of slope uncertainty in regression
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From a teacher’s perspective, what gaps do you see in STEM education?
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Make a test based on online available exercises (looking for websites)
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Anybody hear of this Spintronics game/teaching-tool?
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How to lower one's expectation in teaching college algebra
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Ideas for group theory for high school math project
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Inductors for banana plugs?
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Summer of Math Exposition -- Winners
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MHB Trachtenberg Speed System of Arithmetic
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Virtual Physics Labs - giving some resources and asking for some
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MHB Useful Derivation for Labs Involving Rolling Balls Down an Inclined Plane
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When will universities disappear?
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Physicists Debate: Hardest Upper Division Subject to Teach
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MHB Solve Sign Issues in Elec. Potential, Energy, Force, Field, Work
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MHB AC Method for Factoring Trinomials
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MHB Physics Labs: What Works and What Doesn't
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An issue to think about My new favorite Feynman interview.
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Education articles about Astronomy helping learning Math and Physics
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Is Feynman the "wise guy" in Zee's QFT book?
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How and what to teach on a second-year Engineering Mathematics?
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Critique my Physics History Primer (Maxwell's Equations)
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The Education of a Physicist (1965)
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Writing a Physics laboratory worksheet, Inspired by Inquiry
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Asking the student to use a tablet in online tutoring
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Approaches for teaching Modern Physics in Grade School and University
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What is the best way to introduce Laplace transforms for Engineers?
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Worth learning complex exponential trig derivations in precalc?
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Parents' frustration with distance learning -- "Common Core Math Methods"
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In search of a non-linear way to prepare students for this unique exam
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Supercapacitor dragster project
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Lessons with electron beam deflection tube and teltron tube
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Video lecture demonstrations for an online class
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Is it good etiquette for a student to write down his|her own notes?
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Widgets for Visualizing Engineering
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W. P. Thurston, "How do mathematicians advance understanding of math?"
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NOAA resources for primary and secondary schools - ocean currents
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High School Chemistry: Stoichiometry Readings?
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Foundational Mathematics
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Where to purchase laboratory samples?
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Geometric Construction (bisecting an angle with a compass and straightedge)
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Mainstream math and physics teaching/education journals
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Looking for YouTube playlists
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Is there a forum for NYC physics standards K-12?
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Exploring the Pros and Cons of Variable-Based Physics Problem-Solving
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Physics 'challenge' type problems, High School (16-18) level
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Question re interpreting MarkScheme - Moments (Edexcel A-level)
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Are there places that still do "Core Math"?
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Advice for students who want to start research in Civil Engineering
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High School Physics online video courses and MOOCs?
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Media Literacy assignment: suggestions?
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Using a Problem Solving Technique for a simple word problem
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Teaching approximation techniques in basic courses
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In Canada, 80% is an A-, in the States, it's a B-. Does that mean....
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Does any classical mechanics textbook solve Kepler's Problem?
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Would Math professors ace PhD qualifying exams?
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So, I Accidently Made Friends With The Meanest Math Teacher....
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Help: Frequently asked AP Physics or PHY 101 questions bank?
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Are good note takers usually good comprehenders?
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Making physics exciting for 5th graders
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Puzzled about the non-teaching of Monte Carlo method(s) for error analysis
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