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    Teaching the Photoelectric Effect Using an Open-Source Interactive Simulation
    The photoelectric effect is one of the fundamental experiments that established the basis of quantum mechanics. Students studying this experiment in modern physics courses struggle to understand...

    Keywords: photoelectric effectquantum mechanicsquantalight-matter interactions

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    9-002-GroundWaterFlow-ModelingScenario
    The goals of this project are to compare a conceptual one-dimensional groundwater flow model to observations made in a laboratory setting, and to discuss the differences.

    Keywords: sgroundwater flowDarcy's Lawheat equationaquiferhydraulic headFourier's Lawsand tank

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    1-026-Evaporation-ModelingScenario
    We provide data on evaporation of 91% isopropyl alcohol in six different Petri dishes and one conical funnel and on evaporation of water in one Petri dish. We ask students to develop a...

    Keywords: evaporationconealcoholPetri dish

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    The Flight Physics Concept Inventory: Reliably Evaluating Aerodynamic Lift, Drag and Associated (Naïve) Concepts of Flight in Class and In-Game
    Students often struggle to transfer conceptual understanding from isolated instruction to a coherent mental model. This is especially true for the context of flight physics, fluid dynamics, or the...

    Keywords: active learninggamificationmisconceptionsaerodynamicsfluid dynamicsResearch-based assessment instrumentConceptual SurveyPRE-/POST-test

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    2020-TeachingModule-ModelingFallingColumnOfWater
    We discuss how to model a falling column of water empirically and analytically from first principles in physics laws.

    Keywords: modulecolumn of waterTorricelli's LawTorricelliTeaching Module

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    Restoring Tropical Forests: Implementing a module in an undergraduate majors’ course in forest ecology in Costa Rica
    This publication describes implementation of a module on tropical forest restoration in Costa Rica for an upper-level undergraduate course in forest ecology at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa...

    Keywords: forest ecologyRestorationfield course

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    Learning How to Make “Good Enough” Estimations
    The ability to estimate physical quantities is a useful skill that can help develop critical thinking and scientific literacy. This lesson provides an accessible way to teach students how to...

    Keywords: MeasurementestimationcommunicationProblem Solvinggroup workUnit conversion

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    1-104A-T-InfectionRisk-ModelingScenario
    This project is designed to examine differences between the exponential and logistic growth models in biology and how to apply these models in solving epidemic questions and comparing to actual...

    Keywords: regressioninfectionCOVID19carrying capacitylogistic equationexponential model

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    3-100-Ripcord-Toys-ModelingScenario
    This modeling scenario examines the motion of a ripcord-powered toy with the goal of using real data to estimate parameters in a first-order model of the velocity of the toy. Students may conduct...

    Keywords: dataphysicsdynamicsdata collectionrollingslippingripcordtoy

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    3-130-MatterOfSomeGravity-ModelingScenario
    This project introduces the concept of an inverse problem (or parameter estimation), in the context of the simple linearized pendulum ordinary differential equation.

    Keywords: gravityinverse problemacceleration

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    1-015-Torricelli-ModelingScenario
    We help students develop a model (Torricelli's Law) for the height of a falling column of water with a small hole in the container at the bottom of the column of water through which water exits the...

    Keywords: dataSpanishtankcolumn of waterapertureTorricelli's LawConservation of EnergytSolverwater flowExcel Solver

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    2023-Roberto_Camassaa-Richard_McLaughlina-Tauberian identities and the connection to Wile E Coyote physics
    The application of the motion of a vertically suspended mass-spring system released under tension is studied focusing upon the delay timescale for the bottom mass as a function of the spring...

    Keywords: HangtimeTauberian IdentitiesRoad RunnerWile E. Coyote

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    2020-Cline-EtAl-A Vision for Projects Across the Mathematics Curriculum
    We describe a model that incorporates projects at all stages across the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Finally, we provide samples of projects that we have used in selected courses.

    Keywords: projectstechnical writinginterdisciplinary skills

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    2018-W_Hohenauer-Physical modelling based on first order ODEs
    An introduction in techniques to solve first order ODE´s is given. Barometric formula, charging and discharging of a capacitor including its application for AMV, magnetic induction and growth...

    Keywords: dischargecapacitormagnetic fieldinductionmagnetic induction

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    2023-TechShareNotes. Differential Equations Modeling
    TechShareNotes is a web site with rich differential equation modeling html pages and this one is about mixing in one, two, and three tanks, with interesting questions and problems as well as...

    Keywords: population dynamicspredator-preycircuitreactionspring masspharmacokineticscooling

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    2018-Kovacs-Insperger-Retarded neutral and advanced differential equation models for balancing using an accelerometer
    It is shown that slight modeling differences lead to significant qualitative change in the behavior of the system, which is demonstrated by means of the stability diagrams for the different models.

    Keywords: feedbackAccelerometersfunctional differential equationssemi-discretizationD-subdivision method

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    2018-Joseph-EtAl-A Nonlinear differential equation model of Asthma effect of environmental pollution using LHAM
    In this paper, we investigated a nonlinear differential equation mathematical model to study the spread of asthma in the environmental pollutants from industry and mainly from tobacco smoke from...

    Keywords: asthmatobacco smokeLiao’s Homotopy analysis Method (environmental pollutants

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    2017-Sim-EtAl-Optimal control of a coupled tanks system with model-reality differences
    In this paper, an efficient computational approach is proposed to optimize and control a coupled tanks system.

    Keywords: optimal controlflowtankscoupled tanks

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    2017-Ole_Witt-Hansen-Examples Of Differential Equations In Physics
    This is an article from the author’s homepage. The work contains fundamental and basic background and derivation of the differential equation models for a number of phenomena.

    Keywords: projectileair resistancefree falldragharmonic oscillation

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    2017-Lia_Vas-Modeling With Differential Equations
    This is a set of class notes for Lia Vas in which examples from population, falling objects, tank mixing, growth and threshold, are offered.

    Keywords: thresholdsfalling objectgrowthtank mixing

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