Southwest Texas Junior College Introductory Physics Laboratory Project

9451959门罗这个项目的目标是提高物理学在西南得克萨斯州初级学院的学习，并提高学生的保留和吸引力的主要研究在物理学，特别是妇女和西班牙裔人口。该项目建议在未来两年内在三个物理课程序列中开发和实施新的实验室活动。 实验室课程将改编由罗恩桑顿和普丽西拉法律开发的课程，使用微型计算机收集数据和执行分析和图形控制的学生。 实验室活动将在力学，热，声，电和磁，光和核物理领域发展。 该项目要求支持六个联网的实验室工作站，配备Mac Quadra 650微型计算机、通用实验室接口和适当的传感器和探头。 此外，还需要与MBL工具一起使用的实验室设备以及激光打印机和扫描仪。 该项目预计将更积极地让学生参与实验室活动，从而通过微型计算机的新技术和经过验证的实验室课程来提高物理学的学习。 因此，更多的学生将支持物理，因为他们的积极经验，并可能选择继续他们的研究在物理。 学生将更好地为二十一世纪的技术做好准备，德克萨斯州西南部的科学素养将有所提高。

9451959 Monroe The goal of this project is to improve the learning of physics at Southwest Texas Junior College and to improve the retention of students and the attraction to major studies in physics, particularly among women and the Hispanic population. This project proposes to develop and implement new laboratory activities in three physics course sequences during the next two years. The lab curricula will be adaptions of the curriculum developed by Ron Thornton and Priscilla Laws, using microcomputers to collect data and perform analysis and graphing as controlled by the students. The lab activities will be developed in the area of mechanics, heat, sound, electricity and magnetism, light and nuclear physics. The project requests support for six networked lab stations equipped with Mac Quadra 650 microcomputers, Universal Lab Interfaces and appropriate sensors and probes. In addition, lab equipment to be used with the MBL tools as well as a laser printer and scanner are requested. The project expects to more actively involve the students in lab activities and thereby improve the learning of physics through the new technologies of the microcomputers and with proven lab curricula. As a result more students will support physics because of their positive experiences and may elect to continue their studies in physics. Students will be better prepared for the technologies of the twenty-first century and science literacy in southwest Texas will increase.