• Journal of Science Education
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.374-388
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service physics teachers' perceptions on the physics education major curriculum. We surveyed 15 junior, and 13 senior college students of physics education major in an university in southern part of Korea. Among them, 24 participants(86 %) took the physics 1 course in high school and 22 participants(79 %) chose the physics 1 in their Korea Scholastic Aptitude Test. The responses showed that the most necessary part in pre-service students' learning was the understanding of high school level physics(36 %), and the understanding of introductory level physics(29 %). In the wish list of courses to be open, high school level physics course was ranked first among seven options by 61 % of respondents. Also, there was some concurrence among respondents in opinion of the necessity for understanding introductory physics. Students felt difficulties in understanding it especially owing to the lack of problem solving skill and comprehension. They added that the sufficient explanation of core concepts should be the first action in the innovative plan. Most participants of pre-service physics teachers hoped to have the revised major curriculum which could help their understanding of high school level or introductory level of physics. However, there was a gap of opinions between the group of students with completion of the high school physics 1 & 2 course and those with non-completion of them. The approach of changing major curriculum with consideration of learners' needs was recommended because the number of students with completion of the high school physics course would probably be decreasing rapidly under these circumstances such as the application of new national curriculum, the reduction of the number of the elective courses in Korea Scholastic Aptitude Test and so on.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.242-255
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• 2018

Recently, flipped learning has been paid much attention as one of the improvement methods of teaching and learning at university level. Few studies investigated the effects of flipped learning in general physics classes. However, in order to be successfully established and spread new attempts such as flipped learning, it is necessary to investigate in detail the effect of flipped learning and the way it is perceived by students in accordance with other variables such as student's background and characteristic. In this study, we investigated differences in students' perception on the flipped learning and their achievement according to their background and characteristic in flipped-learning-based introductory physics course in which class hours are divided into lecture and group problem solving equally. Students' achievement was more influenced by their readiness before the beginning of the semester than their time consuming for learning during the semester. Students generally had a very positive perception of the new way of flipped-learning-based physics teaching. However, students of insufficient prior learning, or relatively not-hard learner agreed with careful selection of subjects rather than the overall expansion of flipped learning.

• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.171-199
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• 2009

This essay will consider evolutionary views that attempt to capture the continuity of theory-change from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics via the formal aspects of these theories. Although it cannot be denied that the formal aspects such as 'correspondence principles' and 'covariance principles' provide important information concerning this theory-change, these formal properties are not sufficient to capture the essential elements of any evolutionary account of the development of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity from Newtonian mechanics.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.487-498
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• 2013

Sang-Seol Lee(1870-1917) wrote a manuscript BaekSeungHoCho(百勝胡艸) in the late 19th century. BaekSeungHoCho was transcribed in classical Chinese from the 1879 Japanese book Physics(物理學) by Teizo Ihimori (1851-1916). Sang-Seol Lee, a famous independence activist, is also called Father of the Modern Mathematics Education of Korea, because of his early contribution to the modern mathematics education in the 19th century. In this paper, we introduce contents of his manuscript BaekSeungHoCho for the first time and discuss the significance of this book. Also, we show his contribution on the introduction to modern physics in the late 19th century Korea.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.225-239
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• 2020

This study aims to analyze the characteristics of reflective thoughts of students during experiments in general physics experiments. The participants were 32 college students, they submitted 10 experiment reports including answers to questions for reflective thinking. The results were as follows: First, students show reflective thinking broadly in the experiment, levels were followed by practical reflection, technical reflection, and critical reflection. Also, they actively accepted the knowledge related to experiments, but were passive in connecting new knowledge and experiences obtained through the experiments or forming new questions. Second, the reflective thinking of students show high correlation with experiments related to prior knowledge or the easy-to-understand process. Third, through the qualitative analysis of open-ended questions, it was confirmed that technical reflection occurs in individual evaluation, practical reflection in group evaluation, and practical reflection and critical reflection in improvement proposal. While the students' reflective thinking were superficial or mainly functional, however, they recursively examined the learning contents and the experimental process concurrently.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.627-629
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 파티클 시스템(Particel System)을 이용한 실시간 기체 모델링 알고리즘을 제시한다. 일반적으로 그래픽스 분야에서, 주요한 자연현상의 하나인 기체의 운동은 수학적으로 복잡한 모델을 사용하여 그 모델링이 매우 복잡하였다. 따라서 빠른 구현시간을 얻기 위해서는 고성능의 컴퓨터가 요구되어왔다. 이 알고리즘에서는 물리학에서 수학적으로 정의된, 기체의 움직임에 적용되는 요소 각각을 추계 모델(Stochastic Model)로 다시 재 정의하여 기체 입자각각에 적용시켜 계산과정을 간단히 하였다. 따라서 일반적으로 사용되는 연구용 컴퓨터시스템에서도 실시간 애니메이션의 구현이 가능하다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.15
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• pp.255-260
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• 2003

1980년을 전후하여 카오스연구가 물리학에서 왕성하게 이루어졌다. 미국의 물리학자 파이겐바움(M. J. Feigenbaum)이 보편상수를 발견한 것이(1978) 중요한 계기가 되었다. 파이겐바움의 보편상수는 카오스현상에서 공통적으로 발견할 수 있다. 보편상수를 탐구하기 위해서는 주기, 배가, 파이겐바움 분기도에 대한 이해가 필요하다. 프로그래밍을 통하여 일반적으로 소개하고 있으므로, 프로그래밍에 대한 깊은 이해없이는 분기도를 탐구하기 어렵다. 프로그래밍을 통해서는 나타나는 결과만을 이해할 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 학습자가 프로그래밍 이전에 엑셀의 기능을 이용하여 파이겐바움 분기도를 그릴 수 있는 방법을 제시하고, 파이겐바움의 주기에 대해 엑셀을 이용하여 시각적으로 이해할 수 있도록 한다.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.691-725
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• 1998

무한차원 상공간에서의 디리클레 형식과 이에 관계된 확산과정에 대한 일반 이론을 소개하고, 이 이론을 물리학의 통계역학 모델에 적용하였다. 구체적으로, 고전 비유계 스핀계에 대한 통계역학적인 모델, 연속체 공간에서 상호 작용하는 무한 입자계에 대한 통계역학적인 모델에 응용하였다. 아울러서 확률 미분 방정식과 같은 디리클레 형식에 관련된 연구분야에 대해서도 간단히 알아보았다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.431-438
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• 2022

In functional materials, in situ experimental techniques as a function of external stimulus (e.g., electric field, magnetic field, light, etc.) or changes in ambient environments (e.g., temperature, humidity, pressure, etc.) are highly essential for analyzing how the physical properties of target materials are activated/evolved by the given stimulation. In particular, in situ electric-field-dependent X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements have been extensively utilized for understanding the underlying mechanisms of the emerging electromechanical responses to external electric field in various ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and electrostrictive materials. This tutorial article briefly introduces basic principles/key concepts of in situ electric-field-dependent XRD analysis using a lab-scale XRD machine. We anticipate that the in situ XRD method provides a practical tool to systematically identify/monitor a structural modification of various electromechanical materials driven by applying an external electric field.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for the Gifted Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.139-139
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• 2003

오늘날 세계는 일반국민과 과학기술의 상호관계에 대해 두 가지 큰 논쟁에 빠져있다. 하나는 국민의 과학기술에 대한 공동체 유대감을 어떻게 형성하느냐하는 것과, 또 다른 하나는 과학기술에 대한 일반국민의 이해 수준을 어떻게 측정하느냐에 대한 것이다. 다시 말해서 이제 과학계는 금연캠페인이나 환경캠페인의 성공처럼, 과학기술 지식을 활용하는 데 국민의 참여를 불러오도록 적극적으로 나서야 하며, 그것을 통해 과학기술에 대한 국민의 이해를 높일 수 있다는 주장이다. 즉 일반국민의 과학기술에 대한 공동체 유대감을 높이는 길은 그들의 관심에 근거할 때 가능하며, 그런 과정에서 과학기술에 대한 이해도 높아진다. 예컨대, 지금 우리 국민의 최대 관심사는 급성호흡기장애로 죽음까지 불러오는‘사스 (SARS)’확산과 북한의‘핵무기’소유이다. 그렇다면, 과학기술계와 국가가 전적으로 나서서 그 문제들을 해결하는 모습을 보일 때, 과학기술에 대한 국민의 공동체 유대감이 형성될 수 있고, 나아가 병리학과 핵물리학 자체에 대한 일반국민의 이해도 증진될 수 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 맥락에서, 과학영재 학생들의 과학기술에 대한 이해도를 알아보기 위해 요즈음 국제 사회적으로 커다란 이슈가 되고 있는 북한 핵문제에 대해 과학영재들은 어떤 생각을 갖고 있으며, 어느 정도 이해하고 있는지를 설문조사 하였으며, 이를 남학생과 여학생을 구분하여 분석하였다. 설문에 응답한 학생들은 모두 85명으로 공주대학교 과학영재교육원 영재교육 프로그램에 참여하고 있다.