Interactive Discovery Experiments in Introductory Physics Laboratories

小行星9451743 该项目将建立一个介绍性物理实验室，强调通过交互式数据分析进行发现，而不是使用更传统的演示和验证方法。 为了有效地实施这样一个程序，我们需要计算机直接连接到实验。 我们目前有九个Zenith 486工作站用于数据分析，但我们需要接口设备。 该项目的核心将是开发新的实验或修改现有的实验，以创造一个真正的实验室环境，让学生可以参与发现和快速分析物理现象。 该项目的意义在于引入计算机，以便学生能够收集数据，立即分析数据，然后进一步进行额外的测量和分析，而他们仍然在实验室而不是在家里。 这种方法是进一步加强接口的一些实验，每学期。 它使得有可能在允许的时间范围内进行更多的实验，并在真实的时间内进行实验，这在以前的水平上是完全不可能的。 该实验室的主要用户将是生物学专业的学生，因此将实施几个综合生物学/物理学实验，物理学是由生物应用激发的。 本课程被认为是物理系提供的入门实验室课程中的中级课程，因此更容易在其他课程中实施方法。

9451743 Hones The project is to establish an introductory physics laboratory that will emphasize discovery through interactive data analysis, rather than use the more traditional demonstration and verification approach. To effectively implement such a program we need computers directly interfaced to the experiments. We presently have nine Zenith 486 work stations for data analysis, but we need the interfacing equipment. The heart of the project will be the development of new experiments or the modification of existing experiments for the explicit purpose of creating a true laboratory environment in which the students can participate in the discovery and rapid analysis of physical phenomena. The significance of the project is the introduction of computers so that the students will be able to collect the data, analyze it immediately, and then proceed further with additional measurements and analysis, while they are still in the lab and not at home. This approach is further enhanced by interfacing some of the experiments each semester. It makes it possible to perform more experiments in the allowed time frame and to perform experiments in real time not possible at all at this level before. This principal users of this laboratory will be biology majors, and as such several integrated biology/physics experiments will be implemented, the physics being motivated by the biological application. This course is considered intermediate in level among the introductory laboratory courses offered in the physics department, therefore making it easier to implement the methods in the other courses.