Virtual Experiments for Physics Labs

物理学（13）.本项目进行了系统的研究，以获得令人信服的证据，在物理教学中使用虚拟实验（VE）技术的有效性，并开发虚拟实验在入门物理实验室实施的课程材料。在之前的研究中，PI发现使用虚拟实验可以帮助学生更直观地理解困难的物理概念，并提高实验室对学生学习的有效性。该项目具有智力价值，因为它带来了尖端的计算技术，以解决教学实验室，这是一个非常重要的教育组成部分的STEM学科。它推动了技术的进步，并在物理教育领域创造了新的策略。研究的广泛影响可以在几个方面加以考虑。虚拟现实技术本身在帮助提高学生对物理和学习物理的兴趣、动机和态度方面具有许多优势。使新技术负担得起可以在更大范围内改善教育环境方面产生重大影响。从更一般的角度来看，物理反馈是计算机模拟的新组件。在医学应用中，尝试是模仿真实的东西。动画师们发现，模仿是最好的物理取代时，可能的，这个项目在增加物理VE环境的意义。这项研究的结果也可以导致全面的项目，开发VE技术在物理科学的广泛内容领域。

Physics (13). This project conducts systematic research to obtain convincing evidence about the effectiveness of using virtual experiment (VE) technologies in teaching physics and develops curriculum materials for implementation of VE in the introductory physics labs. In previous research, the PIs have found that using virtual experiments can help students understand difficult physics concepts at a more intuitive level and improve the effectiveness of laboratories on student learning. This project has Intellectual Merit as it brings cutting-edge computing technology to address the teaching laboratory that is a very important educational component of a STEM discipline. It advances technology and creates new strategies in the field of physics education. The Broad Impacts of the research can be considered in several areas. The VE technology itself has many advantages in helping improve students' interests, motivations, and attitudes toward physics and learning physics. Making a new technology affordable can have a significant impact in improving the education environment at a much larger scale. From a more general perspective, physical feedback is a novel component addition to a computer simulation. In medical applications, the attempt is to mimic the real thing. Animators have discovered that mimicking is best replaced by physics when possible and this project has significance in adding physics to the VE environment. The results of this research can also lead to full scale projects that develop VE technologies for a wide range of content areas in physical science.