INSIGHT: "INvestigative Stimuli for Intuitive Growth using High Technology"

几乎所有的物理入门课程都集中在一百多年前形成的概念上。很少有人注意到涉及复杂行为的想法。这种对在实验室中容易演示的领域的强调导致了物理模型的使用，这可能实际上削弱了学生概念化非牛顿系统的能力。虽然我们不能简化复杂的想法，但我们可以让它们变得容易理解。其目的是让受过教育的聪明人能够接触到量子力学。将利用该中心为天体物理科学人员及其计算机中心提供的资源，构建与量子力学相关的交互式和面向图形的模拟集。学物理的高中生将获得强大的计算机工具，以补充真实的实验室练习。这些模拟将允许学生进行和分析模拟实验室实验，这些实验的主题本来是他们无法接触到的。在老师的指导下，学生将能够扮演科学家的角色，并获得对科学及其方法的洞察。将探索学生的误解，并将开辟向高中生展示现代材料的新方法。对学生误解的研究将指导先进技术的进一步应用。

Almost all introductory physics courses concentrate on concepts that were developed more than a hundred years ago. Scant attention is paid to ideas that involve complex behaviors. This emphasis on domains that are easily demonstrated in the laboratory has led to the use of physical models that may actual cripple students' ability to conceptualize non- Newtonian system. While we cannot simplify complicated ideas, we can make them understandable. The aim is to make quantum mechanics accessible to the intelligent, educated person. Interactive and graphically oriented sets of simulations related to quantum mechanics will be constructed exploiting the resources of the center for Astrophysics' scientific staff and its computer center. High school students of physics will be given powerful computer-tools to supplement real laboratory exercises. These simulations will permit students to carry out and analyze simulated laboratory experiments on topics that would be otherwise inaccessible to them. With the guidance of their teachers, students will be able to act as scientists and gain insight into science and its methods. Student misconceptions will be explored, and new ways to present modern material to high school students will be opened. Studies of student misconceptions will guide the development of further uses of advanced technology.