Technological Enhancements to Popular Physics Courses for Non-Science Majors

该项目正在升级实验室部分， 物理课 由于玫瑰学院的教师修订了 在1987年的课程中，非科学专业的学生数量惊人。 选修气象学、音乐物理学、能源学、 城市供求，甚至普通物理，以满足一个 学期科学课程要求。 为了迎接挑战， 这些学生经常患有数学焦虑症， 以前很少有科学背景，自然学院 科学部正在设计新的实验，包括 将某些设备与计算机连接起来。 学生们会来的 有一些以前的计算机经验的班级， 改善数据收集，实验室结果应该更多 从而使科学方法更容易理解。 与 增加了一个卫星天线和一个数字化观测系统， 气象站，气象和能源类正在使用状态- 最先进的方法，并通过研究这些信息，学生 更好地了解他们的日常世界。 为 音乐物理学和普通物理学的学生， 一个音乐合成器和波形分析器， 计算机改进了标准实验中的数据收集， 合成和分析现场音乐的新可能性。 这 计算机化仪器对讲座的影响， 更好、更有针对性的视听能力。 学院 就是用等额的资金来匹配奖金

This project is upgrading the laboratory component for introductory physics classes. Since the faculty of Rosary College revised the curriculum of 1987, a surprising number of non-science majors are selecting the courses of Meteorology, the Physics of Music, Energy- Urban Supply and Demand, and even General Physics to satisfy the one semester science course requirement. To meet the challenge presented by these students often suffering from mathematics anxiety and with little previous science background, the faculty of the Natural Science Department is designing new experiments, including interfacing some equipment with computers. The students will come to the classes with some previous computer experience and by improving data gathering, the laboratory results should be more consistent thereby making science methods more comprehensible. With the addition of a satellite dish and a digitized observational weather station, the meteorology and energy classes are using state- of-the-art methods, and, through study of this information , students obtain a better understanding of their everyday world. For the students in Physics of Musics and General Physics, the addition of a musical synthesizer and wave analyzer capable of interfacing with a computer improves data gathering in standard experiments and adds new possibilities of synthesizing and analyzing live music. This computerized instrumentation impact on the lectures with the capability of better and more pertinent audiovisuals. The college is matching the award with an equal amount of funds.