Incorporating Computer Modeling into the Upper-Division Physics Curriculum

物理（13）该项目将计算机建模纳入高年级物理课程。具体来说，模块改编自文献中的研究文章，并在电学和磁学，光学，统计力学和热力学以及量子力学课程中开发。开发这些模块的目的是：通过引入实质性的，真实的世界，增加课程材料的适用性。问题进入高年级，通过学生直接参与解决问题的各个方面来提高理解，建立学生的计算技能。这些模块解决了物理界确定的需求，即在某些技术领域就业的大多数物理学学士学位获得者认为他们的本科准备不足。这些模块通过发展解决实质性问题的计算技能来解决这一问题，从而为课程其他部分中开发的分析和实验室技能提供补充的教育经验。对计算的重视具有潜在的更广泛的影响：专业内的多个轨道（例如计算物理学）为毕业生提供了有市场的技能，并鼓励具有广泛科学兴趣的学生主修物理学。此外，扩大学生发现物理学是如何做的方式吸引了比平时更广泛的学生观众。

Physics (13) The project incorporates computer modeling in the upper-division physics curriculum. Specifically, modules are adapted from research articles in the literature and developed in the Electricity and Magnetism, Optics, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, and Quantum Mechanics courses. The purpose of developing these modules is to: Increase the applicability of the course material by introducing substantive, real-world. problems into the upper classes, Improve understanding through direct student participation in all aspects of problem solving, Build the computational skill set of the students. These modules address a need identified by the physics community, that the majority of Physics Bachelor recipients employed in certain technical fields felt that their undergraduate preparation was lacking. These modules address this concern by developing computational skills to attack substantive problems, thereby providing an educational experience complementary to the analytical and laboratory skills developed in other parts of the curriculum. The emphasis on computation has a potentially broader impact: Multiple tracks within the major (for example computational physics) provide graduates with marketable skills and also encourage students with broad scientific interests to major in physics. Furthermore, expanding the ways in which students discover how physics is done appeals to a broader student audience than usual.