In modern conditions of education at the forefront ability to independently produce and apply knowledge. In our opinion, one of the core competencies that can be formed when teaching physics is a research competence. A special role in the formation of this competence plays a cyclical scientific knowledge: for the formation of the research competence and appropriation of knowledge, rather than simply memorizing them, you must pass these stages of the cycle of scientific knowledge as a selection of raw facts, hypotheses, its verification experiment, the findings from the experiment. Particularly useful in this aspect of research are physical problems.