University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group

Physics Problems from the UMD PERG

This page links to collections of physics problems created for teachers and education researchers by the University of Maryland's Physics Education Research Group.

• Activity-Based Thinking Problems: Problems created for the ABP Project to help build students' qualitative understanding of physics and to link it with quantitative problem solving.
• The problem collection from Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite: A collection of thinking problems in an easy to access categorized format.
• Peer Instruction Problems: A description of the PI method and a collection of problems appropriate for use in a large lecture with a Student Response System.
  (Direct link to the problem collection.)
• Estimation Problems: A collection of estimation problems ranging from Fermi questions to apparatus design problems.
• Alternative Homework Assignments: Longer, project-like problems that ask students to apply their physics learning to complex real-world style problems.
• Essay Questions for Quantum Physics
• Exam Questions for Research in Quantum Learning: Exam questions used by the group to study student learning in quantum physics.

Maintained by University of Maryland PERG
Comments and questions may be directed to E. F. Redish
Last modified August 27, 2006