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This exploratory field study investigates the integration of innovative forms of recitation tasks in a first-year introductory mechanics course, focusing on smartphone-based experimental tasks alongside programming and standard recitation…
These lecture notes are an informal introduction to the theory of computational complexity and its links to quantum computing and statistical mechanics.
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