Effects of a Thermal Inversion Experiment on STEM Students Learning and Application of Damped Harmonic Motion

There are diverse teaching methodologies to promote both collaborative and individual work in undergraduate physics courses. However, few educational studies seek to understand how students learn and apply new knowledge through open-ended activities that require mathematical modeling and experimenta...

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description There are diverse teaching methodologies to promote both collaborative and individual work in undergraduate physics courses. However, few educational studies seek to understand how students learn and apply new knowledge through open-ended activities that require mathematical modeling and experimentation focused on environmental problems. Here, we propose a novel home experiment to simulate the dynamics of a flue gas under temperature inversion and model it as damped harmonic motion. After designing and conducting the experiment, twenty six first year students enrolled in STEM majors answered six qualitative questions to inform us about their epistemological beliefs regarding their learning process. Their answers imply that this type of open-ended experiments may facilitate students’ understanding of physical phenomena and point to the significance of physics instructors as promoters of epistemological development. In general, students described this activity as a positive experience that helped them connect an environmental phenomenon with a fundamental physics concept.
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subjects Cognition & reasoning
Collaboration
Distance learning
Experimentation
Experiments
Flue gas
Gases
Harmonic motion
Inversion
Knowledge
Laboratories
Literature reviews
Mathematical models
Oscillators
Physics
Problem solving
School environment
Simulation
STEM education
Student participation
Students
Sustainability
Teachers
Technical education
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