Development of Software and Curricular Materials for the Incorporation of Computer Simulations into the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum

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Physics (13) Curriculum materials and Java-based software are being developed to make it easier forfaculty to incorporate computer applications into the undergraduate physics curriculum.In particular, the principal investigator, in colloboration with Jan Tobochnik ofKalamazoo College and Wolfgang Christian of Davidson College, is developing an extensiveand powerful library of Java utilities and templates that make it relatively easy todevelop computer simulations and animations in a variety of contexts. The software isplatform independent and open source and available at no cost. In addition, the third(Java) edition of our popular undergraduate level computer simulation text is being developedduring the time frame of the work.