Pith Number

pith:ZBNE3W35

pith:2017:ZBNE3W35WCD6UBKNUXBKML2IGJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Game-Centered, Interactive Approach for Using Programming Exercises in Introductory Physics

Chris A. Britt, Chris Orban, Chris Porter, Joseph R. H. Smith, Kathy A. Harper, Nash K. Brecht, Richelle M. Teeling-Smith

arxiv:1701.01867 v2 · 2017-01-07 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBNE3W35WCD6UBKNUXBKML2IGJ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:18.042483Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c85a4ddb7db087ea054da5c2a62f48327ee113f2d54bbd62ab71d381f27246f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.01867 · arxiv_version: 1701.01867v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.01867 · pith_short_12: ZBNE3W35WCD6 · pith_short_16: ZBNE3W35WCD6UBKN · pith_short_8: ZBNE3W35

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZBNE3W35WCD6UBKNUXBKML2IGJ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: c85a4ddb7db087ea054da5c2a62f48327ee113f2d54bbd62ab71d381f27246f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bf5b1a523922fa0eee125ae816799034e298fa9bdd658c4491eb63103569303a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-07T18:58:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "856c1cea1e7b8c4466e0d90c0065273fff878acd07b8e86f4d11905d8383b663"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.01867",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}