Pavel M. Polunin

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Transition from undergraduate program to graduate school: is it easy for contemporary students?

Studying in graduate school and helping instructors with undergraduate students in USA have made me feel that there is pretty big jump between the knowledge that average senior (4th year of...

12 February 2014 735 10 View

Does anyone know a good source for materials related to motivational aspects of learning in high-school and universities?

I would like to conduct some research on motivation of students towards getting real knowledge rather than obtaining a degree. What is a motivation? How to measure it? How to foster it in people?...

28 January 2014 476 24 View

How would you motivate and encourage students in your class to really learn/understand the material versus simple memorizing of facts?

I have started to learn about effective teaching/learning strategies and I am highly interested in opinions of other people on this nontrivial question. P.S. I am going to pursue faculty career in...

11 September 2013 343 25 View

Is it possible to obtain the energy of a mechanical pendulum as a function of its action?

It is well known that action can be easily expressed as a function of energy of the pendulum in terms of elliptic integrals. So, the question is if it is possible to obtain the inverse functions...

27 August 2013 1,365 1 View