Physics / research
From physical questions to defensible research
Integrate theory, computation, and experiment through model selection, limiting cases, research replication, open questions, and precise communication of evidence.
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Module 01 research
From physical questions to defensible research
Integrate theory, computation, and experiment through model selection, limiting cases, research replication, open questions, and precise communication of evidence.
- 01
Formulating falsifiable physical questions
Turn a force-law question into contrasting quantitative predictions while making calibration, background and source intervention explicit.
30 min - 02
Identifying controlled parameters and scale hierarchies
Determine separately when convective inertia and unsteady acceleration can be neglected in a viscous flow.
30 min - 03
Limiting cases and correspondence principles
Recover Newtonian kinetic energy with declared variables, truncation errors and the rest-energy subtraction.
30 min - 04
Symmetry, conservation and dimensional cross-checks
Audit a mechanical model with units, momentum, torque, energy and a change of inertial frame.
30 min - 05
Analytic, numeric and experimental triangulation
Compare a diffusion eigenmode with a spatial discretization and a toy amplitude measurement while separating verification from empirical validation.
30 min - 06
Replicating a published physics result
Reconstruct Bell’s original three-setting inequality and a finite singlet-state violation while preserving its assumptions.
30 min - 07
Uncertainty budgets and negative results
Separate averaging noise, common calibration error and correlation before interpreting a null-force measurement.
30 min - 08
Distinguishing effective models from microscopic theories
Match a low-frequency dielectric response to a more resolved oscillator model and diagnose what static data cannot identify.
30 min - 09
Mapping open problems and evidential status
Separate a dated research announcement, an exact theorem statement and an energy estimate using the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes problem.
30 min - 10
Writing a reproducible physics research report
Build a complete quantitative claim from pendulum timing, units, cycle counts, uncertainty and a controlled amplitude correction.
30 min