Our work

Our projects revolve around three areas

science popularization
education
research

Check all our projects in the catalogue.

Popularization

Our science POPULARIZATION projects are the main part of our activities.

Since the team was created

more than 200 projects
close to 400 conferences
14 exhibits
12 million views on Youtube
1.3 million visitors on the website
a dozen of new teaching methods
a dozen of research articles

came to light.

Nos derniers projets de vulgarisation

Forest, trees, physicist

In the forest, a walker unexpectedly meets with a very rare specimen, a physicist. (2023)

MO, the Obedient Machine

A machine that makes measures visible (2022)

marangoni

A beautiful setup of ink and soap experiments (2022)

XYZ

Ceramic machines that generate curves to help understand the sensors in a smartphone (2022)

Quantum, on the tips of you fingers

A fascinating discovery, halfway between a magic trick and a technical achievement. (2022)

A dressing room for discoveries

An entire collection of fabric-made objects to help tell stories of scientific discoveries. (2022)

Animations about magnetism

3D animations about magnetism in solids and how to measure it (ferro, antiferro, spin glass, spin liquids, frustration, neutron, NMR, musr… (2021)

OK smartphone

Break through your smartphone screen to see what is hiding behind ! (2022)

plus fort que powerpoint

pour animer des ateliers créatifs en trois clics, voici un site web clé en main où faire des tirages au sort, imposer des contraintes, choisir des (...) (2021)

Roughly

An animated film to understand how a physicist thinks, how many cats there are in Paris, why you have to like broccoli … in short, how to reason(...) (2021)

To the invisible and beyond !

How to make invisible thanks to contemporary physics? Response with a stop motion that features the astonishing universe of metamaterials thanks to &#(...) (2021)

Smartstones

A smartphone game in the days of the cavemen (2021)

The catalogue of all our projects !

Education

Our team also works in the education field.

We develop

tools
workshops
fictions

that are used by Julien and Frédéric in their courses at Paris-Saclay University and the Villebon – Georges Charpak Institute.

Our last projects about pedagogy

Teaching with fiction

Utiliser des univers fictifs pour enseigner la physique expérimentale (2022)

workshop Reimagine Physics Teaching

The “Reimagine Physics Teaching” workshop brought together 35 physicists to rethink physics teaching. Original formats, new productions, a(...) (2022)

Remote teaching ideas and tools

Tools and resources to teach at distance in a more dynamic way : icebreakers, OBS, genially, smartphones… Created through a collaboration with I(...)

The Smartphone Physics Challenge

How many different ways can you invent to measure the height of a building with your smartphone? We have found 61! Here you will find all the m(...) (2019)

kitcrea

Et si vos élèves abandonnaient pour une fois leur powerpoint pour proposer des exposés originaux ? Afin de les aider à être créatifs et autonome(...) (2021)

Lockdowned students' labs

During spring 2020 lockdown, physics students lead (literally-)homemade experimental projects. 2020

J’en peux plus des Zoom !

On vous propose différentes façons d’améliorer des réunions Zoom, de les rendre plus conviviales, efficaces, originales… (2021)

TP smartphone en lycee

Des travaux pratiques originaux pour 2nde, 1ere et Terminale (2020)

PedagoMaker

A website and a system of pictograms to produce in 3 minutes educational sheets on its own teachings. (2019)

Scientific immersion

We tested a new way of teaching by immersing students in a fiction for 2-3 days, where they had to save a spacecraft at distance. This immersion allow(...) (2019)

Outreach teaching

An original extension education offered to physics students since 2012. Students must design projects for 5 days in groups, then present them in a col(...) (2012)

Open Tp website

website to transform physics labs into comics in less than an hour, even without knowing how to draw. (2018)

Teaching physics with arduino

Teaching experimental physics with Arduino microcontrolers. (2014)

Physics Selfies

Take fun selfies with your smartphone’s sensors, thanks to physics and the FizziQ app! (2022)

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Research

Physics Reimagined is a research team that does research on its research projects. Are you still with us ? Most precisely, our science popularization and education projects are studied in human and social sciences. These lead to

articles
conferences
collaborations…

Our recent publications

Adding fiction into physics' labs to engage undergraduate students

An article which studies the effect of fiction on our students engagement.

61 ways to measure the height of a building: an introduction to experimental practices

How to measure the height of a building with your smartphone, and how to use this activity for innovative teaching or outreach practices.

Comment construire de nouvelles pédagogies ?

Un article publié dans The Conversation en Juin 2022, sur un nouveau format de workshop pour parler d'innovation pédagogique.

2023

Adding fiction into physics'lab to engage undergraduate students (pdf, 277 KB)

F. Bouquet, J. Bobroff, M. Moyen, V. Berry, G. Allaire-Duquette, Proceedings ESERA 2023 p.1259-1351

2022

Comment construire de nouvelles pédagogies ? (pdf, 9 MB)

J. Bobroff, The Conversation Juin 2022

Des mesures sans fil avec son smartphone (pdf, 1 MB)

J. Vince, F. Bouquet, J. Bobroff, G. Creutzer, D.Dorsel, le BUP 116, 935 (2022).

2021

Enhance your smartphone with a Bluetooth Arduino nano board (pdf, 506 KB)

F. Bouquet, G. Creutzer, D. Dorsel, J. Vince and J. Bobroff, Phys. Educ. 57 015015 (2021) ; https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10531

61 ways to measure the height of a building: an introduction to experimental practices (pdf, 915 KB)

F. Bouquet, A. Kolli, J. Bobroff, G. Organtini, Phys. Educ. 56 055022 (2021) ; https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11606

Five tips on how to reinvent remote teaching (pdf, 561 KB)

J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, J. Parmentier, Translation of an article published in The Conversation France (2021)

Cinq idées pour enseigner à distance autrement (pdf, 3 MB)

J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, J. Parmentier, The Conversation, janvier 2021

2020

Teaching experimental science in a time of social distancing (pdf, 886 KB)

J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, U. Delabre, Translation of an article published in The Conversation France (2020)

Enseigner la physique autrement (pdf, 1 MB)

Julien Bobroff, Frédéric Bouquet, Ulysse Delabre, La Recherche, Février 2020, N°556, p59

En confinement, réinventons la vulgarisation scientifique ! (pdf, 3 MB)

J. Bobroff, The Conversation, Mars 2020

Enseigner les sciences expérimentales à l'heure de la distanciation sociale (pdf, 2 MB)

J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, U. Delabre, The Conversation Mai 2020

2019

Low-cost experiments with everyday objects for homework assignments (pdf, 1 MB)

F. Bouquet, C. Dauphin, F. Bernard, J. Bobroff, Physics Education, Volume 54, Number 2, 025001 (2019)

Sept idées fausses sur la physique quantique (pdf, 4 MB)

J. Bobroff, paru dans The Conversation Mars 2019

Seven common myths about quantum physics (pdf, 1 MB)

J. Bobroff, Translation of an article published in The Conversation France (2019)

2018

Physical pendulum experiment re-investigated with an accelerometer sensor (pdf, 4 MB)

Cyril Dauphin, Frédéric Bouquet, Papers in Physics 10, 100008 (2018)

Temperature-dependent transport measurements with Arduino (pdf, 1 MB)

A. Hilberer, G. Laurent, A. Lorin, A. Partier, J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, C. Even, J. M. Fischbach, C. A. Marrache-Kikuchi, M. Monteverde, B. Pilette, Q. Quay, Papers in Physics 10, 100007 (2018)

A study on kinetic friction : the Timoshenko oscillator (pdf, 8 MB)

R. Henaff, G. Le Doudic, B. Pilette, C. Even, J.M.Fischbach, F. Bert, J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, M. Monteverde, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 86 174 (2018)

2017

Ten misconceptions scientists have about popularizing science (pdf, 4 MB)

J. Bobroff, Translation of an article published in The Conversation France (2017)

Project-based physics labs using low-cost open-source hardware (pdf, 937 KB)

F. Bouquet, J. Bobroff, M. Fuchs-Gallezot, L. Maurines, Am. J. Phys Vol.85 216 (2017)

Reimagining physics (pdf, 406 KB)

J. Bobroff, Nature Nanotechnology p.496, Vol.12 (2017)

Dix idées fausses que se font les scientifiques de la vulgarisation (pdf, 2 MB)

J. Bobroff, The Conversation France, 19/12/2017

How to frame the un-known? (pdf, 624 KB)

A. Gentes, A.L. Renon, J. Bobroff, Design and Technology Education, Vol.22 3 (2017)

Images des pratiques du chercheur : étude de cas auprès d'étudiants de troisième année de licence de physique fondamentale (pdf, 605 KB)

M. Fuchs-Gallezot, L. Maurines, J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, 9ème rencontres de l'ARDiST, Lens (2016)

2015

Objets de médiation de la science et objets de design. Le cas du projet « Design Quantique (pdf, 1 MB)

C. Jutant et J. Bobroff Communication et Langages Vol 9, 183 (2015)

Le design et l'art pour vulgariser la physique (pdf, 217 KB)

J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, C. Jutant, Proceedings Science & You p.49 (2015)

2014

Design and Superconducting levitation (pdf, 4 MB)

J. Bobroff, F. Azambourg, C. Chambon, V. Rodriguez (Vol 47 Issue 5, 2014)

Donner à voir la physique autrement (pdf, 627 KB)

J. Bobroff, Reflets de la Physique, n°42 (2014)