Interactive, Microcomputer-Based Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

该项目的目标是提高普通教育，工程，技术和科学轨道的本科生对物理概念的兴趣，理解和应用。该项目建立在初步的本地工作，使用基于微型计算机的实验室（MBL），以提高学生参与实验室的经验，联系动觉，知觉和逻辑符号的经验现象，并提高数据采集和显示的质量和即时性。实验，演示和模拟应用和扩展公开报道的MBL实验。基于主动，协作，以学习者为中心的教学技术的实验用于力学，电学和磁学，热学和热力学以及现代物理学。 该项目是不寻常的，涉及两个相邻的校区，这应该加快学习模块的发展，在其连接到12个校区在宾夕法尼亚州立联邦学院，在较低的司物理学教授良好的机会，内部和外部传播，并在使用实验室的经验，连接物理和数学指令彼此。 支持提供软件和硬件，以装备约克和蒙特阿尔托的基本MBL，并提供额外的仪器和设备，以在约克开展广泛的实验。这两个校区正在合作，以加快为学生开发一套完整的实验室体验。预计在物理学的学习将大大改善，并希望科学和数学教学之间的桥梁将加强这两个学科的学习。

The goal of the project is to improve interest in and understanding and application of physics concepts by undergraduate students in general education, engineering, technology and science tracks. The project builds on preliminary local work to use a microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) to improve student involvement in laboratory experiences, to link kinesthetic, perceptual and logical-symbolic experience of phenomena, and to increase the quality and immediacy of data capture and display. Experiments, demonstrations and simulations apply and extend publicly reported MBL experiments. Experiments based on active, collaborative, learner centered pedagogical techniques are used in mechanics, electricity and magnetism, heat and thermodynamics, and in modern physics. The project is unusual in involving two neighboring campuses, which should speed development of learning modules in its connections to 12 campuses in the Penn State Commonwealth College at which lower-division physics is taught with good opportunity for internal and external dissemination, and in using laboratory experiences to connect physics and mathematics instructions to each other. Support provides software and hardware to equip a basic MBL at York and Mont Alto and for additional instrumentation and equipment to develop a wide range of experiments at York. The two campuses are collaborating to speed development of a complete set of laboratory experiences for students. It is expected that learning in physics will improve measurably and it is hoped that the bridge between science and mathematics instruction will enhance learning in both disciplines.