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The study guide (textbook) is part of a set of materials designed to support high-quality practical training in physics. It includes a collection of tasks for organizing both in-class and independent work. The guide serves as a foundation…

Web-based applications are highly accessible to users, providing rich, interactive content while eliminating the need to install software locally. However, evolutionary robotics (ER) has faced challenges in this domain as web-based…

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We describe a course designed to help future educators build an integrated understanding of the different elements of physics education research (PER), including: research into student learning, content knowledge from the perspective of how…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael C. Wittmann , John R. Thompson

Interactive computational environments can help students explore algorithmic concepts through collaborative hands-on experimentation. However, static and instructor controlled demos in lectures limit engagement. Even when interactive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Sumedh Karajagi , Sampad Bhusan Mohanty , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

This paper describes the dynamic seminar management system named 'e-Sem', developed according to the opensource software philosophy. Due to its dynamic management functionality, it can equally adapt to any education environment (Primary,…

Physics education research has consistently shown that students have higher learning outcomes when enrolled in interactive-engagement courses. Consequently, many schools are actively reforming their introductory curricula. For courses where…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-02-26 Eric Hickok

In this work, we present the Electric Motor simulator, an application from the SimuF\'isica\textsuperscript{\textregistered} platform designed for classroom use. We briefly describe the technologies behind the application, the equations…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-10-25 Marco P. M. de Souza , Sidnei P. Oliveira , Valdenice L. Luiz

A difficult challenge in physics education is to design professional development programs for teachers, which can lead to fundamental changes in their practise. We report all activities for physics teachers in the context of the National…

Simulating quantum mechanics is known to be a difficult computational problem, especially when dealing with large systems. However, this difficulty may be overcome by using some controllable quantum system to study another less controllable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 I. M. Georgescu , S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

This paper presents the history of the online simulation program Java-DSP (J-DSP) and the most recent function development and deployment. J-DSP was created to support online laboratories in DSP classes and was first deployed in our ASU DSP…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Andreas Spanias

jinns is an open-source Python library for physics-informed neural networks, built to tackle both forward and inverse problems, as well as meta-model learning. Rooted in the JAX ecosystem, it provides a versatile framework for efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-19 Hugo Gangloff , Nicolas Jouvin

In order to understand the physics phenomea on the fundamental aspects, the software simulations are a good exercise to succed in this way. Some work of heat transport and molecular physics laboratory are studied in a comparative mode…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Murariu , Dorina Toma

Physics Education Research (PER) practitioners have engaged in substantial curriculum development and dissemination work in recent years. Yet, it appears that this work has had minimal influence on the fundamental teaching practices of…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-13 Charles Henderson , Melissa H. Dancy

Open source software (OSS) development offers a unique opportunity for students in Software Engineering to experience and participate in large-scale software development, however, the impact of such courses on students' self-efficacy and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Larissa Salerno , Simone de França Tonhão , Igor Steinmacher , Christoph Treude

An early-stage version of simulation package ' ELSES' (Extra-Large-Scale Electronic-Structure calculation) is developed for electronic structure and dynamics of large systems, particularly, nm-scale or 10nm-scale systems (www.elses.jp).…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-16 Takeo Hoshi , Takeo Fujiwara

Researchers in physics education have advocated both for including modeling in science classrooms as well as promoting student engagement with sensemaking. These two processes facilitate the generation of new knowledge by connecting to…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-01-31 Amogh Sirnoorkar , James T. Laverty , Paul D. O. Bergeron

This innovative practice WIP paper describes \emph{LITE-SOC}, a lightweight web-based Security Operations Center (SOC) simulator designed for instructor-led cybersecurity education. SOC analysts must triage large volumes of alerts, separate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Martin Higgins , Shawn Thompson , Cherry Mangla

Often mistakenly seen as a game, the online 3D immersive virtual world Second Life (SL) is itself a huge and sophisticated simulator of an entire Earthlike world. Differently from other metaverses where physical laws are not seriously taken…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-09-22 Renato P. dos Santos

Making quantum mechanical equations and concepts come to life through interactive simulation and visualization are commonplace for augmenting learning and teaching. However, graphical visualizations nearly always exhibit a set of hard-coded…