The European Journal of Physics is a journal of the European Physical Society, aimed at assisting in maintaining and enhancing the standards of physics education in universities and other higher education institutions. Authors submitting articles must indicate the usefulness of their material for physics education and clearly specify the target audience of their articles (undergraduate or graduate students). Submissions that omit this information or are deemed by the publisher to contribute little to the aforementioned goals will not be considered for publication. We welcome articles that provide original insights and aim to strengthen learning in one or more areas, typically including at least one of the following: explanations of how contemporary research aids in understanding university-level physics, such as surveys of research fields at a level comprehensible to students, illustrating how it elucidates general principles; original insights into the derivation of results, which should be of general interest rather than mere corrections to textbooks; descriptions of novel laboratory exercises that demonstrate new techniques of general interest, especially those based on relatively inexpensive equipment; articles of an academic or reflective nature that aim to stimulate interest in physics and are suitable for physics students or recent graduates; descriptions of successful and original student projects, whether experimental, theoretical, or computational; discussions of the history, philosophy, and epistemology of physics at a level accessible to physics students and teachers; reports on new developments in physics courses and techniques for physics education; and reports of original experimental and/or theoretical research contributions directly related to university physics teaching.