Talk:Physics education

message: 1) At this point the primary focus of physics education is typically to make it inquiry based.  The current version of the article (12/5/06) does mention that lectures are often less effective than hands-on learning in a physics classroom, but this is probably insufficient at this point for an article on physics education.  Suggest integrating up to date physics education research (in summary).
2) In the second example under "Additional examples of misconceptions in physics" the equation F=ma is given and I think in this place it is necessary to identify it as either Fnet=ma or use sigma notation or some other alternative since it can be deceiving to say that Newton's second law requires that F=ma.
--Gellender 05:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: I was searching for PER to get some quick content to explain to my colleagues what the field is. I didn't find a PER article, so I had to dig a bit to find this. I think PER, which concerns itself with researching student learning and evaluating teaching methods, is sufficiently different to merit a separate article. But I am not an expert in the field.
Raddick 13:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tagged the section for splitting. Fgnievinski (talk) 05:32, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should Physics Education Research (PER) be a separate article? 

message: Should Classroom Performance Systems applications be mentioned?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.2.40.144 (talk) 20:48, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  PRS 

message: Please try and give a global perspective to any expansion of this article. 82.20.28.142 (talk) 23:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global 

message: Consider mentioning the Physics as Modeling idea of Dr. David Hestenes and the new studio format being employed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.159.209.23 (talk) 23:05, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physics as Modeling 

message: HA! It doesn't redirect to Engineers. Checkmate, XKCD.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.23.224.58 (talk) 19:31, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah I also rushed over here to check it this morning.  a13ean (talk) 21:26, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It did, obviously. I swear, every single xkcd comic referring to Wikipedia results in a protected page. Arda Xi(Talk) 06:05, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: And it will likely happen here, too. I don't know if its the author doing it, or someone goofing on us, but manipulating the encyclopedia to make a point kinda pisses me off. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 06:40, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I really doubt it's the author--I think it's simply that the comic has such a huge following that it includes a plentiful supply of pranksters. Ccrrccrr (talk) 11:07, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  XKCD 

message: Most of the stuff in this section is wrong. 
Copernicus didn't make a discovery at all. He was a mathematician who was trying to solve planetary orbits by adapting a heliocentric model. There were many people before Copernicus that thought the earth revolved around the sun, Copernicus was just the first to show that the circles lined up neatly if you arranged things this way.
I do not recall any discoveries made in the middle ages that didn't fit Aristotle's physics. The earliest discovery I can think of is of pneumatic phenomena in water pumps by miners in the 16th century which led to the rejection of Aristotle's horror vacui in the 17th century.
Also, the story of Galileo dropping balls off the tower of Pisa is generally regarded as a myth. Aristotle's theory that a heavier object falls faster than a light one takes air into account and wasn't contradicted by observation, as Galileo didn't have the technology to produce a vacuum. Aristotle's theory of impetus did receive some critique in the middle ages, but all of the critique was rhetorical and not based off different observations than the ones made by Aristotle.
Basically, it needs to be said in a more historically-conscious way.  
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.30.210.155 (talk) 01:31, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on Education in Ancient Greece 

message: This article has no concern with Wikipedia:Wikiproject Physics, as it does not describe any theory or law. Inshort, this should be placed in Wikipedia:Wikiproject Education. --Ali Asher Kazmi (talk) 13:45, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
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message: The paragraph on Kansas State University's work seems far too specific and reads more like an ad than a Wikipedia page.Pvkwiki (talk) 17:46, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paragraph on Kansas State University's work 

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message: External link number 8 named "Possibilities Framework" is broken (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jdgaffne/grad_symposium.pdf). I replaced it by the Wayback Machine link using recomendation made on Help:Using the Wayback Machine. Therefore I substituted
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jdgaffne/grad_symposium.pdf
by {http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jdgaffne/grad_symposium.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804000852/http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jdgaffne/grad_symposium.pdf|archive-date=August 08, 2010|dead-url=yes} but as it did not look well, I undoed it.
 Maybe someone could point out the problem for it to be solved?
--Manouchk (talk) 07:21, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken or prohibited links 

message: And category overlap between this topic and :Category:For-profit universities and colleges? -Inowen (nlfte) 00:42, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlap category 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Physics Education Research which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 19:38, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: I am new to Wikipedia and have a suggestion of adding a textbook by Douglas C. Giancoli to one or more of the following: an article on physics education, an article/list on physics textbooks, or a separate article for Giancoli Physics.
Giancoli Physics has been around since 1984 when the first edition came out.
There are different editions of the main textbook but the main one is in its 7th edition, having come out in 2014. I think it would be very helpful to include a link to this textbook. I say this because it is a lot clearer and less verbose than other physics textbooks for the university on the market, like Young and Freedman's University Physics. he keeps calculus concepts that can hinder understanding of the material to a minimum with optional sections and explanations of how calculus is used in each chapter. I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to start working on an article for Giancoli Physics myself on my personal Sandbox page or to submit a request after I've worked on it, or to add it to a list of Physics textbooks, or add it to an article on Physics Education.
I am fortunate enough to able to compare the 1st version from the 1980s to the 2014 version we have today.
ScientistBuilder (talk) 01:33, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Physics Textbook by Giancoli Question

message: I noticed that laboratory activities are not included in the Teaching Strategies section. It is very common for hands-on experiments that students need to carry out is very common to secondary and university physics courses. I plan to add a bullet point in this section talking about the common goals and methods of lab activities. Alimaz2k (talk) 23:25, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Laboratories in the Teaching Strategies Section 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :List of projects for use in physics education and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at  until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 19:55, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "List of projects for use in physics education" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]