Flat-Earthers at Heart

Flat-Earthers at Heart

Flat-Earthers at Heart:
Challenging Naive Ideas about Magnetic Fields

Typically, learners stop at the middle school model of the Earth as a bar magnet. This conceptual model is rarely challenged or enhanced, as the majority of U.S. students do not take dedicated Earth and space science courses in high school. Of those students who do take Earth and space sciences, many are not college-bound, and the courses are considered remedial. Students are often left with a vague idea that compasses can be helpful survival tools for navigating out of dark forests, but little more...

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Download Android Physics Toolbox AR to explore magnetic fields around a current-carrying wire.

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Physics Toolbox was recently used at the "New Trends in Physics Education" workshop in Puebla, Mexico in late May.
 
One of the activities entailed using the smartphone as a monochromatic or dichromatic color source to make predictions about which colors of gummy bears would absorb and transmit particular colors of light.

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Physics Toolbox magnetometer was used to map an art space to prepare for motion capture for an upcoming digital film that is being produced in California.

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Physics Toolbox can be used for math, too! Mathematics educators looking to teach about linear and inverse-square relationships can easily do so with authentic environmental data.

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More than 120 high school students participated in a physics summer camp at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, led by Professor Juan Antonio Monsoriu. Learn more in this Spanish-language video below, and follow Dr. Monsoriu on Twitter at @JuanAntMonsoriu.

This article presents an experiment for high school students "to quantitatively study the linear relation between the induced electromotive force and the magnetic flux time rate."

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A team in China used Physics Toolbox in their work on a "Pavement Damage Detection System Using Big Data Analysis of Multiple Sensors."

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