European Journal of Physics (EJP) is a journal of the European Physical Society and its primary mission is to assist in maintaining and improving the standard of taught physics in universities and other institutes of higher education. Therefore, submitted articles should:

show how the physics content of the article is currently situated in higher education
explain how the article advances the field of physics in higher education
indicate the usefulness of their material to physics education
make it clear what the intended level of physics education is (undergraduate or graduate)
be written in such a way as to be comprehensive and understandable for the broader EJP audience, and not just for a specialist subset of the EJP audience.
Submissions that omit this information or which, in the publisher’s opinion, do not contribute to the above mission will not be considered for publication.

To this end, we welcome articles that provide original insights and aim to enhance learning in one or more areas of physics. They should normally include at least one of the following:

Explanations of how contemporary research can inform the teaching and learning of physics at university level: for example, a survey of a research field at a level accessible to students, explaining how it illustrates some general principle(s).
Original insights into the derivation of, for example, algebraic expressions. These should be of some general educational significance (consisting of more than corrections to textbooks).
Descriptions of novel laboratory exercises illustrating new techniques of general interest. Those based on relatively inexpensive equipment are especially welcome.
Articles of a scholarly or reflective nature that are aimed to be of interest to, and at a level appropriate for, physics students or recent graduates.
Descriptions of successful and original students’ physics projects, experimental, theoretical or computational.
Discussions of the history, philosophy and epistemology of physics, at a level accessible to physics students and teachers.
Reports of new developments in physics curricula and the techniques for teaching physics.
Physics Education Research reports: articles that provide original experimental and/or theoretical research contributions that directly relate to enhancing the teaching and learning of university-level physics (this explicitly excludes pre-university levels).
Unless it fulfils one or more of the above criteria, the journal is not a vehicle for the publication of fundamental research.

Papers are published under the following subject sections:

Mechanics
Thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical physics
Electrodynamics
Optics and quantum optics
Quantum physics and quantum mechanics
Solid state physics and materials
Relativity, cosmology, astronomy and astrophysics
Physics education research
Multidisciplinary and miscellaneous