Numerical Simulation Assisted Teaching Laboratory on Physical Phenomena

一项批判性的分析表明， 形式主义密集的物理教学无意中剥夺了 大学生有机会了解， 经验，广泛的物理现象， 当代兴趣 补救的关键 重要的是让学生在大学早期就接触到 教育的物理现象，正是这些东西， 物理学 该项目涉及实验室的新概念 以强烈的现象学取向进行教学， 为有效和严格的 传统. 两个关键要求是补偿 在学生准备和打破身体的差距 感兴趣的现象，它是透明的， 并且容易接近。 这可以通过免费使用来实现 数值模拟和实验测量， 强调光学和电学可视化。 一个新 教学实验室已朝着这一目标创建，适合 作为一个入门性的教学环境， 广泛的课程背景参与。 一些主题- 定向实验模块已开发出不同的 完整性的水平，从力学中提取的主题， 电学和磁学，光学，光谱学， 热力学 进一步研究和开发选定的 正在进行实验模块，以期 这一概念可随时转移到其他机构， 以及其他科学学科。

A critical analysis shows that the very successful tradition of formalism-intensive physics teaching has inadvertently deprived college students of the opportunity to learn about, and experience with, a wide range of physical phenomena of contemporary interest. The key to remedy the situation significantly is to expose the students early in their college education to physical phenomena, the very stuff that sustains physics. This project involves a new concept of laboratory teaching with a strong phenomenological orientation in order to bring about a balance to the otherwise effective and rigorous tradition. The two key requirements are to compensate for the gap in the students preparedness and to break down the physical phenomena of interest to the point where it is both transparent and accessible. This can be accomplished by complimentary use of numerical simulation and experimental measurement with emphasis on optical and electrical visualization. A new teaching laboratory has been created toward this goal, suitable for an introductory instructional setting where students of broad curricular background participate. A number of theme- oriented experiment modules have been developed to different levels of completeness, with topics drawn from mechanics, electricity and magnetism, optics, spectroscopy and thermodynamics. Further research and development of selected experiment modules are being carried out, with a view toward ready transferability of the concept to other institutions as well as to other scientific disciplines.