Fundamental Physics and Physics Education Research

289 Pages·2021·7.007 MB·English

by  Burra G. Sidharth, Jesús Carnicer Murillo, Marisa Michelini, Carmen Perea (eds.)

Burra G. Sidharth
Jesús Carnicer Murillo
Marisa Michelini
Carmen Perea Editors
Fundamental
Physics and
Physics Education
Research
Fundamental Physics and Physics Education
Research
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Burra G. Sidharth Jesús Carnicer Murillo
(cid:129)
Marisa Michelini Carmen Perea
Editors
Fundamental Physics and
Physics Education Research
Editors
BurraG.Sidharth JesúsCarnicerMurillo(deceased)
BirlaScienceCentre MiguelHernándezUniversity
Hyderabad,India MUDIC-VBS-CV
Orihuela(Alicante),Spain
MarisaMichelini CarmenPerea
PhysicsEducationResearchUnit,DMIF MiguelHernándezUniversity
UniversityofUdine MUDIC-VBS-CV
Udine,Italy Orihuela(Alicante),Spain
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We dedicate this book to Jesús Carnicer
Murillo,wholeftuslastOctober,whenweare
preparing together this book. He wrote us the
lastletterfromtheHospital.Hepromotedand
organized the Frontiers of Fundamental
Physics (FFP15) in Orihuela, offering us a
perfect organization and hospitality.
We remember him as a very active colleague
with particular attention to science education
and informal learning. Since 2012 he was
Pedagogical Director of Teaching and
Interactive Museum of Science Vega Baja del
Segura of Valencia (MUDIC-VBS-CV) and
head of the Department of Physics and
Chemistry of the IES “Thader” of Orihuela
(Alicante). He received the award for Ciencia
en Acción. Granada. 2009 with the work
Stand on contest: Pesando astronautas.
Promoterandresponsiblefor manyprojectin
Physics and Chemistry Education, he carried
out many teacher education courses and
initiatives to promote the MUDIC Museum.
He never spared himself in his work and has
always been willing to promote social
initiatives for scientific education. He was
passionate about optics and astronomy. His
sympathy and generosity made him a man
loved and appreciated by all. We will always
rememberhimastheonewhogaveusaloton
the human and scientific level.
JesúsCarnicerMurilloduringtheopeningceremonyoftheFundamentalFrontiersofPhysics15in
Orihuela(Spain)
Preface
International Frontiers of Fundamental Physics Symposium
Series
(Fifteenth in the Series, Orihuela)
For over a decade the International Symposium Series Frontiers of Fundamental
Physics has attracted some of the greatest physicists in the world as well as many
other eminent physicists. The broad objective of the series has been to enable
scholars working in slightly different areas to meet on a single platform and
exchangeideasandstatusreportsandevendissentingviews.
TheareascoveredhaveincludedAstronomyandAstrophysics,ParticlePhysics,
Theoretical Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, Computational Physics, and
related areas. The symposia have been held in India (multiple), Italy (multiple),
Spain,Canada,Australia,andFrance(multiple).
The eminent physicists who have delivered special lectures over the years,
sometimes more than once, have included Nobel Laureates, professors G.’t Hooft,
S.Chu,CharlesTownes,KlausvonKlitzing,PierredeGennes,DouglasDOsheroff,
SirHarryKroto,SirTonyLeggett,andalsothelikesofProf.YuvalNe’eman,Prof.
J. Pati, Prof. John Ellis, Prof. Asoke Sen, and several other prominent scholars.
Therehavealsobeencontributedpapersandposters.
The selected papers books of almost all the symposia in the series have been
publishedbytheUniversitiesPress(OrientLongman),KluwerAcademic,Springer,
andtheAmericanInstituteofPhysics.
Increasingly over the years, sessions involving students and physics education
researchhavealsobeenincluded.InthepastphysicistsfromIndiaandotherAsian
countries including Japan and the Middle East, Europe, Russia, the USA, South
America,andelsewherehavepresentedpapers.
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International OrganizingBoard: Prof. D.D. Osheroff,StanfordUniversity, Hon.
Chair, Prof. C. Cohen-Tannoudji (Cochair), Prof. F. Quevedo, Director, Interna-
tional Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Prof. D. Finkelstein, Georgia Tech.,
Prof.H.RolandTriay,UniversityofMarseilles,Dr.MarcLachez-Rey,Universityof
Paris, Diederot, Prof. Marisa Michelini, Dr. B.G. Sidharth, B.M. Birla Science
Centre,India,Convenor.
Contents
PartI FundamentalPhysics
1 SymmetriesintheStandardModel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JoseBernabeu
2 GoingBeyondtheStandardModel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
B.G.Sidharth
3 Using“EnhancedQuantization”toBoundtheCosmological
Constant,(foraBound-onGravitonMass),byComparing
TwoActionIntegrals(OneBeingfromGeneralRelativity)
attheStartofInflation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
AndrewWalcottBeckwith
4 “EquatCausaEffectum”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
PeterEnders
5 (Non-)UniquenessofEinstein–PalatiniGravity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
BertJanssen,AlejandroJiménez-Cano,JoséAlbertoOrejuela,
andPabloSánchez-Moreno
6 BallisticTransportinNanowires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
B.G.SidharthandAbhishekDas
7 GravitationbyCondensation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
JonathanJ.Dickau
8 DarkMatterAnomaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
B.G.SidharthandAbhishekDas
9 BeforetheBigBang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
E.R.Siegel
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PartII PhysicsEducationResearch
10 InnovationofCurriculumandFrontiersofFundamental
PhysicsinSecondarySchool:Research-BasedProposals. . . . . . . . . 101
MarisaMichelini
11 PhysicsEducationResearchandtheFoundationsofPhysics:
ACaseStudyfromThermodynamicsandStatisticalMechanics. . . 117
DavidSands
12 Stem,InquiryPracticesandTechnologyinPhysicsEducation. . . . 127
TonEllermeijerandTrinh-BaTran
13 DesigningTeachingLearningSequencesBasedonDesign-Based
Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
JenaroGuisasola,KristinaZuza,andAneLeniz
14 IDIFO6MQ_P:ACourseforIn-ServiceSecondarySchool
TeachersEducationonModernPhysics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
DanieleBuongiorno,MarisaMichelini,LorenzoSanti,
andAlbertoStefanel
15 FreshmanEngineering’ReasoningStrategiesWhenAnswering
FCIQuestions:ACaseStudy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
OnofrioR.BattagliaandClaudioFazio
16 Inquiry-BasedApproachandNumericalSimulations:
APowerfulIntegrationinCondensedMatterPhysicsEducation. . . 201
DominiquePersano-Adorno
17 AViewonHighSchoolStudents’KnowledgeAbout
Nanotechnology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
OctavianVasileCaroaieandOvidiuFlorinCaltun
18 StudentLearningPathsfromExplorationofOpticalDiffraction
withOnlineSensorstoFormalInterpretativeModels. . . . . . . . . . . 223
AlbertoStefanel
19 Research-BasedPathProposalonOpticalSpectroscopy
inSecondarySchool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
DanieleBuongiornoandMarisaMichelini
20 ACombinationofHistoricalPhysicsDocumentsandOther
TeachingToolsfortheInstructionofProspectiveTeachers
inChaosandComplexity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
AristotelisGkiolmas,ArtemisiaStoumpa,AnthimosChalkidis,
andConstantineSkordoulis