https://sloap.org/journal/index.php/ijpm <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>IJPM</strong> is published in English and it is open to authors around the world regardless of the nationality. The frequency or number of issues per year is continous.<br />ISSN 2632-9417</p> Scientific and Literature Open Access Publishing en-US International journal of physics and mathematics 2632-9417 <p>Articles published in the International Journal of Physics &amp; Mathematics (<strong>IJPM</strong>) are available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a>). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant <strong>IJPM&nbsp;</strong>right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal, and to use them for any other lawful purpose.</p> <p>Articles published in <strong>IJPM&nbsp;</strong>can be copied, communicated and shared in their published form for non-commercial purposes provided full attribution is given to the author and the journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (<em>e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book</em>), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.</p> https://sloap.org/journal/index.php/ijpm/article/view/2264 <p>The work presents the virtual experiment on Platonic solids in a complementary way, where its importance is crucially used for the treatment of the teaching of the quantization of space-time via loop quantum gravity. The research was part of one of the studies carried out with 23 students in the 3rd year of high school in São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project is part of several introduced subjects on modern and contemporary physics, as well as frontier research topics. The student starts to have a student-researcher posture and based on Ausubel and Bruner's learning theories, they develop significant learning and receive new information and concepts at the elementary level, conditioning them to a critical and reflective posture. We use the experiment in which students interactively learn three-dimensional shapes, calculate surface area and volume and discover mathematical properties of shapes, necessary knowledge that covers the discussion of the theory. Subsequently, they carried out the skills test and we collected data from the students' operations to present the scenario of innovation and reflection on the possibility of introducing research topics in physics, but with appropriate language for the audience of interest according to Bruner's learning theory.</p> Jizreel Pereira da Silva Copyright (c) 2024 International journal of physics & mathematics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-05-05 2024-05-05 7 1 1 6 10.21744/ijpm.v7n1.2264 https://sloap.org/journal/index.php/ijpm/article/view/2287 <p>Remaining within the frame work of vector algebra and vector calculus, this paper makes use of the tangent and normal vectors to a given curve at a given point on it for the derivation of the equations of tangent and normal to the curve at that point. The techniques of derivation offered are generalized, simple and straight forward. Furthermore, unlike the traditional techniques, the present scheme increases the range of applicability of one of the fundament concepts of vector calculus (namely, gradient of a scalar point function) as well. As a result, this contribution must have educational value and it will enrich and sophisticate the traditional literature thereby enhancing the same as well.</p> Pramode Ranjan Bhattacharjee Copyright (c) 2024 International journal of physics & mathematics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-07-13 2024-07-13 7 1 7 15 10.21744/ijpm.v7n1.2287