Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...
For the students at Le Salésien High School in Sherbrooke, Quebec, physics will never be the same. Instead of jocks, loners, and preppy kids, the kids in Shawn Young’s class are now warriors, mages, ...
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--High school teachers who want new ways to help physics students learn more from lab activities have a new resource from NSTA Press. The book—a one-stop source of ...
They huddled around the computer in Jeremy Smith’s physics classroom during study hall at Hereford High School, scanning columns and columns of numbers. “It’s delayed a minute – we have to wait,” ...
Like the spider whose bite turned a spectacled nerd into a wall-scaling superhero, the popularity of a single course has turned a mild-mannered physics professor into a media darling. For the past few ...
Some progress has been made in encouraging girls to study physics at A-level, according to a report by the Institute of Physics (IoP). In 2016, 1.9% of girls chose A-level physics, up from 1.6% in ...
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How can we forget him! The physics professor at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach went viral a few months ago for his wild classroom experiments. Now, the coronavirus pandemic has forced ...
With neon-colored ear plugs clamped tight, Conroe High School students gripped the aluminum bleachers as 124 decibels of roaring sound and wind heralded a recent physics lesson — an Apache helicopter.
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As someone who knows what he's doing, physics teacher Dan Fullerton at Irondequoit High School in ...
State budget cuts have already sliced deeply into the student experience at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Introductory physics, taught by professor Travis Rector, no longer fits in a classroom.