TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the potential of using ChatGPT in physics education
AU - Liang, Yicong
AU - Zou, Di
AU - Xie, Haoran
AU - Wang, Fu Lee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - The pretrained large language models have been widely tested for their performance on some challenging tasks including arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning. Recently how to combine LLMs with prompting techniques has attracted lots of researchers to propose their models to automatically solve math word problems. However, most research works focus on solving math problems at the elementary school level and few works aim to solve problems in science disciplines, e.g., Physics. In this exploratory study, we discussed the potential pedagogical benefits of using ChatGPT in physics and demonstrated how to prompt ChatGPT in solving physics problems. The results suggest that ChatGPT is able to solve some physics calculation problems, explain solutions, and generate new exercises at a human level.
AB - The pretrained large language models have been widely tested for their performance on some challenging tasks including arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning. Recently how to combine LLMs with prompting techniques has attracted lots of researchers to propose their models to automatically solve math word problems. However, most research works focus on solving math problems at the elementary school level and few works aim to solve problems in science disciplines, e.g., Physics. In this exploratory study, we discussed the potential pedagogical benefits of using ChatGPT in physics and demonstrated how to prompt ChatGPT in solving physics problems. The results suggest that ChatGPT is able to solve some physics calculation problems, explain solutions, and generate new exercises at a human level.
KW - AI in education
KW - ChatGPT
KW - Physics calculation problem
KW - Physics learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174594438&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s40561-023-00273-7
DO - 10.1186/s40561-023-00273-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85174594438
VL - 10
JO - Smart Learning Environments
JF - Smart Learning Environments
IS - 1
M1 - 52
ER -