Enhancing Physics Laboratories with Microcomputers

用微型计算机增强物理实验室

• 批准号: 9650539
• 负责人: John Lynch
• 金额: $ 0.68万
• 依托单位: The Waynesburg University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-05-15 至 1998-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650539&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Physics; Laboratories; Microcomputers

After several years of planning, the Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics Department is conducting a project for enhancing physics laboratories with microcomputers. The project can dramatically change the way physics laboratories are taught at the college. Currently, the students work through a series of lab assignments by carefully following detailed sets of procedures. The students find the assignments to be tedious at times and, as a result, they often lose track of the objective by focusing on the procedure. The collection of data is slow, and the results are often inaccurate. With the acquisition of microcomputer stations for data collection and data analysis, students can work on lab assignments in ways that are more similar to how scientists work in their laboratories. Each assignment has an explicit written objective without an explicit procedure. Students are shown how the new equipment works and how to navigate through the software, but it is incumbent on them to find ways to attain the written objective. The collection of data is fast, and measurements are accurate. Many trials can be performed in one lab period. Once the basic equipment and software are understood and mastered, students are adequately prepared to begin a slew of lab assignments without the need for continual guidance from an instructor. The change is intended for the biology, chemistry, and engineering majors in Introductory General Physics I and II; the sports medicine majors in Basic Physics; and the engineering and computer science majors in Computers in the Laboratory.

经过几年的规划，数学，计算机科学和物理系正在进行一个项目，以加强物理实验室与微型计算机。该项目可能会极大地改变大学物理实验室的教学方式。目前，学生们通过仔细遵循一系列详细的程序来完成一系列的实验作业。学生们发现作业有时是乏味的，结果，他们经常因为专注于程序而失去目标。数据收集缓慢，结果往往不准确。 随着用于数据收集和数据分析的微型计算机站的获得，学生可以以更类似于科学家在实验室工作的方式完成实验室作业。每个作业都有一个明确的书面目标，但没有明确的程序。向学生展示新设备的工作原理以及如何浏览软件，但他们有责任找到实现书面目标的方法。数据收集速度快，测量准确。在一个实验室周期内可以进行多项试验。一旦基本设备和软件的理解和掌握，学生充分准备开始一系列的实验室作业，而不需要从教师的持续指导。 这一变化是为了生物，化学和工程专业的介绍一般物理I和II;运动医学专业的基础物理;和工程和计算机科学专业的计算机在实验室。