International publications (updated 15 March 2016)
PaedDr. Ján Beňačka, PhD.
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia
jbenacka@ukf.sk
Impact journals
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BENACKA, Jan. (2008). On hyperbolic heat conduction in solids: minimum mean free path of
energy carriers and a method of estimating thermal diffusivity and heat propagation
characteristics.
Heat and Mass Transfer, 44(7), 873 – 887. ISSN 1432-1181.
Available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00231-007-0289-9
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BENACKA, Jan, VOZAR, Libor and STUBNA, Igor. (2008). Design of Experiment for Thermal
Diffusivity Measurements of Composite Material with Orthogonal Anisotropy.
International Journal of Thermophysics, 29(6), 2088-2101. ISSN 0195-928X.
Available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10765-008-0531-9
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BENACKA, Jan. (2010). High-altitude free fall revised.
American Journal of Physics, 78(6), 616-619. ISSN 0002-9505.
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3298375
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BENACKA, Jan. (2011). On high-altitude projectile motion.
Canadian Journal of Physics, 89(10), 1003-1008. ISSN 0008-4204.
Available at: http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/p11-084
BENACKA, Jan. (2014). On planetary motion – a way to solve the problem and a spreadsheet
simulation.
European Journal of Physics, 35(4), 1-13. ISSN 0143-0807.
Available at: http://iopscience.iop.org/0143-0807/35/4/045016
BENACKA, Jan. (2016). Numerical Modelling with Spreadsheets as a Means to Promote STEM
to High School Students.
Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 12(4), 1-18. ISSN 1305-8223.
Available at: http://iserjournals.com/journals/ejmste/articles/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1236a
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Scopus journals (excluding impact journals)
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BENACKA, Jan. (2009). A better cosine approximate solution to pendulum equation.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 40(2),
307–308. ISSN 1572-9567.
Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/nGkYKghX5mvUwIeNC43f/full
BENACKA, Jan and STUBNA, Igor. (2009). Ball launched against an inclined plane – an
example of using recurrent sequences in school physics.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 40(5), 696-705.
ISSN 1572-9567.
Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ajfWiyfgihIrjIiKUZhK/full
BENACKA, Jan. (2009). Power series solution to the pendulum equation.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 40(8), 1109-1117.
ISSN 1572-9567.
Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZyCYB9yyWsJvYaKPd9UX/full
10) BENACKA, Jan. (2010). Solution to projectile motion with quadratic drag and graphing the
trajectory in spreadsheets.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 41(3), 373-378.
ISSN 1572-9567.
Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4vGGTQ5SmIxB9IFt9ynP/full
11) BENACKA, Jan. (2012). Cutting solid figures by plane – analytical solution and spreadsheet
implementation.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 43(5), 647-654.
ISSN 1572-9567.
Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ma9EZjSQY5wWuQsAaB9T/full
12) BENACKA, Jan. (2013). Introduction to 3D graphics through Excel.
Informatics in Education, 12(2), 221-230. ISSN 1648-5831.
Available at: http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/htm/INFE226.htm
13) BENACKA, Jan. (2014). Modelling harvesting animal population at constant rate and constant
effort.
International Journal of Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 8(2), 107-112.
ISSN 1998-0140.
Available at: http://www.naun.org/main/NAUN/ijmmas/2014/a162001-067.pdf
14) BENACKA, Jan. (2015). Projectile general motion in a vacuum and a spreadsheet simulation.
Physics Education, 50(1), 58-63. ISSN 0031-9120.
Available at: http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9120/50/1/58/
15) BENACKA, Jan. (2015). Spreadsheet application showing the proper elevation angle, points of
shot and impact of a projectile.
Physics Education, 50(3), 342-347. ISSN 0031-9120.
Available at: http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9120/50/3/342
16) BENACKA, Jan. (2015). Creating realistic 3D graphics with Excel at high school – vector
algebra in practice.
Informatics in Education, 14(2), 161-173. ISSN 1648-5831.
Available at: http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/htm/infedu.2015.10.htm
17) BENACKA, Jan. (2016). Introduction to integral calculus at high school through calculating area
and volume with spreadsheets.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 47(1) (2016), 149155. ISSN 1572-9567.
Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ewAqa8T7zfnzZmvAs7Sd/full
18) BENACKA, Jan. (2016). Calculating ellipse area by the Monte Carlo method and analysing dice
poker with Excel at high school.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology [online]. ISSN
1572-9567.
Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CnBTXQPzVUGG72D5qIh2/full
Scopus book chapters
19) BENACKA, Jan. (2011). School mathematics with Excel.
In: LAU, Mark. A. and SUGDEN, Steven J. (Eds.). Applications of Spreadsheets in Education:
The Amazing Power of a Simple Tool (pp. 173-240). Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Bentham
Science Publishers/Bentham eBooks. ISBN 978-1-60805-276-9.
Available at: http://www.eurekaselect.com/53665/chapter/school-mathematics-with-excel
WoS conferences
20) BENACKA, Jan. (2005). Model of the temperature field of a sample at the flash method of
measurement of the thermal parameters considering the hyperbolic heat conduction equation.
In: KOVACOVA, M. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 4th International Conference APLIMAT 2005.
Bratislava: Slovak University of Technology, 2005 (pp. 43-48). ISBN 978-80-969264-2-8.
21) BENACKA, Jan. (2014). Simulating projectile motion in Visual C# and Lazarus at gymnasium.
In: TURČÁNI, Milan, DRLÍK Martin, KAPUSTA, Jozef, ŠVEC, Peter (Eds.). DIVAI 2014: 10th
International Scientific Conference on Distance Learning in Applied Informatics. Conference
proceedings, Štúrovo, Slovakia May 5-7, 2014 (pp. 241-249). Praha: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 97880-7478-497-2.
Scopus conferences
22) BENACKA, Jan and REICHEL, Jaroslav. (2013). Computer modeling with Delphi –
constructionism and IBL in practice and motivation for studying STEM.
In: DIETHELM, Ira and MITTERMEIR, Roland T. (Eds.). ISSEP 2013, LNCS 7780 (pp. 138146). Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag. ISSN 0302-9743.
Available at: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-36617-8_12
Journals (excluding impact and Scopus journals)
23) BENACKA, Jan and STUBNA, Igor. (2005). Accuracy in computing acceleration of free fall in
the air.
The Physics Teacher, 43(7), 432-433. ISSN 0031-921.
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2060639
24) BENACKA, Jan. (2007). Spreadsheet numerical modelling in secondary school physics and
biology.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 2(3), article 3. ISSN 1448-6156
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol2/iss3/3.
25) BENACKA, Jan. (2008). Three Spreadsheet Models of a Simple Pendulum.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 3(1), article 5. ISSN 1448-6156.
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol3/iss1/5
26) BENACKA, Jan. (2008). 3D Graphics with Spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 3(1), article 7. ISSN 1448-6156.
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol3/iss1/7
27) BENACKA, Jan. (2009). Simulating Projectile Motion in the Air with Spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 3(2), article 3. ISSN 1448-6156.
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol3/iss2/3
28) BENACKA, Jan. (2011). Graphing Functions of Two Variables in Spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 4(3), article 3. ISSN 1448-6156.
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol4/iss3/3
29) BENACKA, Jan. (2011). Solving J. W. Kittinger’s Jump in Excel.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 5(1), article 1. ISSN 1448-6156.
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol5/iss1/1
30) BENACKA, Jan. (2012). Central Projection in Excel – an Introduction to Virtual Reality.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 6(1), article 1. ISSN 1448-6156.
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol6/iss1/3
31) BENACKA, Jan. (2013). Bubble and selection sorting with Excel.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 6(3), article 4. ISSN 1448-6156.
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol6/iss3/4
32) BENACKA, Jan. (2013). Rumrejser med 1g acceleration. LMFK-bladet, 35(3), 3. ISSN 09060855.
33) BENACKA, Jan and CERETKOVA, Sona. (2014). Modelling harvesting animal population at
high school with spreadsheets – the case of Moby Dick.
Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE), 7(3), article 3. ISSN 1448-6156.
Available at: http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol7/iss3/3
Book chapters (excluding Scopus)
34) BENACKA, Jan. (2013). Travelling the space at 1 g acceleration.
In: NOVOTNÁ, Jarmila and MOUSOULIDES, Nicholas (Eds.). Bringing Mathematics to Earth
(pp. 204-210). Nicosia, Cyprus: Demetra Ltd. ISBN 978-954-952-6-83-7.
Conferences (excluding WoS and Scopus)
35) BENACKA, Jan. (2010). Functions, calculus, and linear systems in school mathematics with MS
Excel.
In: DRLÍK Martin, KAPUSTA Jozef and ŠVEC Peter (Eds.). DIVAI 2010 - Distance learning in
applied informatics: conference proceedings, Nitra, May 4 - 6, 2010 (pp. 180-188). Nitra: UKF.
ISBN 978-80-8094-691-3.
36) BENACKA, Jan. (2012). 3D in Excel.
In: KYNIGOS Chronis, CLAYSON James E. and YIANNOUTSOU Nikoleta (Eds.).
Constructivism 2012. Theory, Practice and Impact: Proceedings from International Conference,
Athens 21 - 25 August 2012 (pp. 672-674). Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens. ISBN 978-960-88298-3-1.
37) BENACKA, Jan. (2012). Supersonicman - an informatics x physics project.
In: KYNIGOS Chronis, CLAYSON James E. and YIANNOUTSOU Nikoleta (Eds.).
Constructivism 2012. Theory, Practice and Impact: Proceedings from International Conference,
Athens 21 - 25 August 2012 (pp. 522-529). Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens. ISBN 978-960-88298-3-1.
38) BENACKA, Jan. (2013). BubbleSort, SelectSort and InsertSort in Excel & Delphi - learning the
concepts in a constructionist way.
In: DERZHANSKI Ivan, HOFUKU Yayoi. Commentarii informaticae didacticae 6 : Informatics
in Schools: Local Proceedings of the 6th International Conference ISSEP 2013 – Selected
Papers, Oldenburg, Germany, February 26–March 2, 2013. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag
Potsdam. ISSN 1868-0844, P. 153-154.
39) BENACKA, Jan and CERETKOVA, Sona. (2013). Excel modelling in upper secondary
mathematics – a few tips for learning functions and calculus.
In: UBUZ, Behiye, HASER, Cigdem and MARIOTTI, Maria Alessandra (Eds.). CERME 8:
Eighth Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education, Manavgat-Side, Antalya,
Turkey, 6-10 February 2013: conference proceedings (pp. 970-979). Ankara, Turkey: Middle
East Technical University. ISBN 978-975-429-315-9.
Available at: http://www.mathematik.unidortmund.de/~erme/doc/CERME8/CERME8_2013_Proceedings.pdf