Technological Enhancements to Popular Physics Courses for Non-Science Majors

非科学专业热门物理课程的技术改进

• 批准号: 9052320
• 负责人: Mary O'Donnell
• 金额: $ 1.64万
• 依托单位: Rosary College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-07-15 至 1993-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9052320&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Technological; Enhancements; Popular; Physics; Courses

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.

该项目正在升级物理入门课程的实验室组件。 自1987年玫瑰学院教师修改课程以来，数量惊人的非理科专业学生选择了气象学、音乐物理、能源-城市供需，甚至普通物理等课程来满足一学期理科课程的要求。 为了应对这些经常遭受数学焦虑且缺乏科学背景的学生提出的挑战，自然科学系的教师正在设计新的实验，包括将一些设备与计算机连接。 学生将具有一定的计算机经验来上课，通过改进数据收集，实验室结果应该更加一致，从而使科学方法更易于理解。 通过增加卫星天线和数字化观测气象站，气象和能源课程正在使用最先进的方法，通过研究这些信息，学生可以更好地了解他们的日常生活。 对于音乐物理和普通物理专业的学生来说，添加能够与计算机连接的音乐合成器和波形分析仪可以改善标准实验中的数据收集，并增加合成和分析现场音乐的新可能性。 这种计算机化仪器以更好、更相关的视听效果对讲座产生影响。 学院将为该奖项提供同等数额的资金。