Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it? When Radha Mastandrea started her undergraduate physics program at MIT in 2015, she ...

Bio: Laurie McNeil is the Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having retired in July 2025 after ...

Prof. Philip Krasicky ’90, physics, who teaches PHYS 1112: Mechanics and Heat, also agrees that educators are still figuring out the most effective way for students to learn.

A new study has shown that physics problems can light up parts of the brain traditionally not associated with learning science. The discovery could help improve how the subject is actually taught ...

In The Physics Teacher, researchers explore the goal of culturally relevant pedagogy, which is to center students' cultural resources as a bridge to learning. It relies on a framework of ...

Making physics more engaging means meeting students where they are, highlighting the ways in which it plays a role in their communities.

In today's podcast, Ilona talks with Tim Stelzer, a theoretical particle physicist and a research Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois. Over the past few years, Tim has ...

Investing in the future More funding for education research is needed to carry out research into how students learn physics. (Courtesy: iStock/Steve Debenport) Over the past century the Institute of ...

Physics departments could then develop assessment as part of the learning process itself rather than it simply being a way of judging what has been learned during a course. Assessment would also be ...

It will fill you in on the physics fundamentals. You’ll get re-acquainted with lessons on motion, work, and energy. Plus, you’ll even get the chance to learn how to use physics.

And I think in terms of understanding physics and explaining physics, interacting with people in productive ways to learn physics – we’re already at a point where most advanced AI tools can do ...