TL;DR In this pandemic year, cheating has been a major concern. One way of mitigating its effect is to ask questions beyond the traditional “Calculate…” type of physics problem. I present a list of possible questions that can’t be easily searched online and even if they’re found the answers are not as likely to be found in my experience. These questions probably work best in conjunction with the usual types of physics problems.
This post is really just a collection of the Conceptual Understanding In Introductory Physics series. I thought it might be helpful to have them all organized in one post. I will refine and update this list as I add to it and modify it.
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics I: Models, Testability, and Falsifiability
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics II: Constant, Invariant, and Conserved Quantities
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics III: Interpreting Physical Quantities
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics IV: Can a person move at 0.99c?
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics V: Length Contraction and Time Dilation
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics VI: Naming Reference Frames
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics VII: Vector Division
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics VIII: A Simple Vector Equation
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics IX: Solving Dot and Cross Product Equations
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics X: Resolving a Vector
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XI: Conservative Forces
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XII: Combining Position and Velocity
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XIII: Differential Equations
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XIV: Simple DC Circuits
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XV: Symmetry Arguments
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XVI: Superposition Arguments
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XVII: Potential Confusion
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XVIII: The Maxwell Equations
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XIX: Why is current not a vector?
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XX: The Laplace-Runge-Lenz Vector
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXI: Deriving Expressions for Kinetic Energy
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXII: Energy in Multiparticle Systems
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXIII: A Question About Fields
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXIV: Distance Variations of Fields and Forces
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXV: A Free Particle?
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXVI: System Schemas
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXVII: Mass and Charge
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXVIII: Div, Grad, and Curl
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXIX: Two Expressions for the Dot Product
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXX: Two Expressions for the Cross Product
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXXI: Practice With Vector Notation
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXXII: Practice With Simple Vector Computation
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXXIII: Drawing Systems
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXXV: Free-body Diagrams
Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Physics XXXVI: Geometry and Work