Computer-based Equipment Platforms in Introductory Labs for Technology Students

9452536弗格森波士顿富兰克林研究所将通过购买设备来改善其物理实验室，这些设备与现有的计算机一起，将能够增强数据采集和分析，进一步整合主要物理主题，并加强物理现象的相似性。 仪器主要由传感器、外围设备和换能器组成。这一设备加上动力学、光学、微波和电子/机械系统将有助于数据的收集、储存和处理。从上述设备中选择的单个实验平台，例如研究波行为的声谱仪，当与通过使用功率放大器、数字函数发生器、驱动器/检测器线圈和传感器来改变实验结果的能力相结合时，将导致更综合的物理教学方法。 然后将在光学、微波和原子结构中研究上述波行为的物理现象，通过利用适当的系统来加强相似性。 拟议中的实验室改善是非常重要的富兰克林，作为一个为期两年的技术学院服务于主要是经济弱势的城市人口。如果不充分接触私营部门工业目前使用的最先进的数据分析方法，研究所的学生-其中大多数将在毕业后进入劳动力市场-将无法在这一重要领域获得充分的专业培训。此外，这些学生，以及那些选择继续在四年制机构接受教育的学生，将通过实验室获得更全面的一般理论知识，该实验室提供了最佳的整合和主要物理原理和现象的强化。

9452536 Ferguson The Franklin Institute of Boston will improve its Physics Laboratory by the purchase of equipment that, together with already existing computers, will enable enhanced data acquisition and analysis, the further integration of major physics topics, and the reinforcement of similarities in physical phenomena. The instrumentation consists primarily of sensors, peripherals, and transducers. This equipment, together with the addition of dynamics, optics, microwave and e/m systems will facilitate the collection, storage and manipulation of data. A single experimental platform selected from the above-described equipment, such as a sonometer studying wave behavior, when teamed up with the ability to change experimental results through the use of power amplifiers, digital function generators, driver/detector coils and sensors, will result in a more integrated approach to physics instruction. The physical phenomena of wave behavior described above will then be studied in optics, microwaves and atomic structure, reinforcing the similarities, through the utilization of the appropriate systems. The proposed laboratory improvement is highly significant to Franklin, as a two-year technical college serving a predominantly economically-disadvantaged urban population. Without full exposure to the state-of-the-art data analysis methods currently utilized by private sector industry, the Institute's students, the majority of whom will be entering the work force upon graduation, will not have adequate professional training in this vital area. In addition, these students, and those who elect to continue their education at four-year institutions, will gain a more thorough knowledge of the general theory through a laboratory which offers the best possible integration and reinforcement of major physical principles and phenomena.