A Physics Computing Laboratory With an Interactive Digitized Video Component

本项目主要是实验室课程开发。我们建议发展 在PU/NC普通物理课程的数字化视频实验。在力学和波动的新实验将被开发为提供给科学，工程和技术学生的普通物理课程。力学数据将在每个实验室开始时由学生在实验室教师的监督下捕获和数字化。数字化电影将由学生在脚本多媒体工具书应用程序中逐帧播放，该应用程序允许使用鼠标和光标进行数据收集，并随后通过与数字建模数据进行比较或通过曲线拟合程序进行分析。此外，还将使用多媒体工具书编写软件编写涉及真实的世界情况的多媒体课程。这些课程将有助于探索物理原理与真实的生活情况的联系，并有助于小学教育专业学生以及科学，工程和技术课程的学生的课堂教学。 在这个项目中，我们还计划研究学生的学习行为和理解的概念相关的建议实验。我们会设计一份调查问卷，收集学生对使用新实验室仪器的意见。从该项目中获得的结果将通过文章和/或实验室手册以及万维网上的Purdue主页进行传播。

This project is primarily one of laboratory curriculum development. We propose to develop digitized video experiments for the general physics curriculum at PU/NC. New experiments in mechanics and wave motion will be developed for the general physics courses offered to science, engineering, and technology students. The mechanics data would be captured and digitized at the start of each laboratory by the students under the supervision of the laboratory instructor. The digitized movie would be played frame by frame by the students in a scripted Multimedia ToolBook Application which would allow the use of mouse and cursor for data collection and subsequent analysis by comparison to numerically modeled data or by curve fitting procedures. In addition, multimedia lessons involving real world situations will be developed using the Multimedia ToolBook authoring software. These lessons will help explore the connection of physics principles to real life situations and aid in classroom instruction of students majoring in elementary education as well as those in science, engineering and technology programs. In this project, we also plan to study the student's learning behavior and understanding of the concepts related to the proposed experiments. A survey questionnaire will be devised to obtain feedback from the students regarding the usage of the new laboratory equipment. The results obtained from this project will be disseminated through articles and/or laboratory manuals and through the Purdue Home Page on the World Wide Web.