Computer Interface Physics Equipment

该项目的目的是让我们的学生体验最先进的计算机设备，并增加他们对定量物理的熟悉程度。为了解决这些问题，我们为物理实验室配备了12个计算机接口数据采集站，与传统的实验室设备一起用于测量热、光、声、电、磁和运动。这些数据采集系统在适当软件的支持下，能够进行数据存储、分析、操作和检索，因此比用于分析物理数据的传统方法更先进。此外，计算机的模拟能力正在被用于方程的可视化以及物理系统的建模。掌握该设备为学生提供了理解使用传感器/换能器/放大器/记录器组件系列的其他类型设备的工作原理的背景。模拟体验帮助学生弥合理论和实验之间的概念差距，希望这一过程将引导学生增加对物理世界现象的批判性思维。

The objective of this project is to give our students experience with state-of-the-art computer equipment and to increase their familiarity with quantitative physics. To address these issues, we have equipped our physics laboratory with 12 computer-interfaced data acquisition stations to be used with traditional laboratory equipment for measurements of heat, light, sound, electricity, magnetism and motion. These data acquisition systems, supported by the appropriate software, are capable of data storage, analysis, manipulation and retrieval and are therefore more advanced than the traditional methods used to perform analysis of physics data. Also, the simulation capabilities of the computer are being exploited for visualization of equations as well as the modeling of physical systems. Mastery of this equipment provides the students with backgrounds for understanding the operation principles of other types of equipment using the sensor/transducer/amplifier/recorder component series. The simulation experience helps students bridge the conceptual gap between theory and experiment and it is hoped that this process will lead the student to an increase in critical thinking regarding phenomena in the physical world.