Physics teaching interests

  • Information and communication technologies & physics teaching.
  • Introduction of statistical and probabilistic methods in secondary school, college and university (first year) physics courses.
  • Reality immersive physics teaching. Out-of-classroom physics teaching.
  • Introductory courses as a link between General and Higher Education.
  • Development of professional competences from first-year physics university courses.
  • Low cost technologies for physics teaching experiments in developing countries.
  • Applied mathematics and education development.
  • Development of strategies and tools for on-line and home-made physics teaching experiments.

Selected publications

Acoustic determination of g by tracking a free-falling body using a smartphone as a ‘sonar’
Camila F. Marín Sepúlveda, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Marcos H. Giménez, and Juan A. Monsoriu, Phys. Educ. 58 035011 (2023).
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/5.0097792

Acoustic characterization of magnetic braking with a smartphone
Camila F. Marín Sepúlveda, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Isabel Salinas, and Juan A. Monsoriu, The Physics Teacher 60, 706 (2022).
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/5.0097792

Characterization of linear light sources with the smartphone’s ambient light sensor
I. Salinas, M. H. Giménez, J.A. Monsoriu, and J. C. Castro-Palacio, The Physics Teacher 56, 562 (2018).
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5064575

Direct visualization of mechanical beats by means of an oscillating smartphone
M. H. Giménez, J. C. Castro-Palacio, and J. A. Monsoriu, The Physics Teacher 55 (2017) 424.
http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5003745

Diffraction and spatial structure of electronic components of everyday use: motivating experiences for engineering students
J. J. Barreiro, A. Pons, J. C. Barreiro, J. C. Castro-Palacio, J. A. Monsoriu, Am. J. Phys. 82 (2014) 257-261.
http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.4830043

Cover of Volume 82, Issue 3, March 2014, American Journal of Physics.
http://aapt.scitation.org/toc/ajp/current

A quantitative analysis of coupled oscillations using mobile accelerometer sensors
J. C. Castro-Palacio, L. Velázquez-Abad, F. Giménez, J. A. Monsoriu, Eur. J. Phys. 34 (2013) 737–744.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/34/3/737

Highlighted in Advances In Engineering website.
http://advanceseng.com/applied-physics/quantitative-analysis-coupled-oscillations-using-mobile-accelerometer-sensors

Using the mobile phone acceleration sensor in Physics experiments: free and damped harmonic oscillations
J. C. Castro-Palacio, L. Velázquez-Abad, M. H. Giménez, J. A. Monsoriu, Am. J. Phys. 81 (2013) 472-475.
http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.4793438

Pioneer article on smartphone sensors and Physics teaching experiments in Higher Education. 

You can find more on SmartPhysics project website.