Developing a Low-Cost, Design-Driven Course in Experimental Physics

开发低成本、设计驱动的实验物理课程

• 批准号: 0940681
• 负责人: Kenneth Libbrecht
• 金额: $ 19.02万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0940681&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Low; Cost; Design; Driven

Physics (13)This project is developing a new type of undergraduate laboratory course at Caltech called the Physics Design Lab. The course is patterned after the highly successful Engineering Design Lab courses that exist throughout the country.In the Physics Design Lab, undergraduate students are asked to design, build, and debug their own physics experiments in a professional laboratory setting, much as their engineering counterparts are asked to design and build electro-mechanical devices in the Engineering Design Labs. Resources and equipment are available to allow the students to "ask their own questions" and "design their own experiments" in tracks related to Dynamical Ion Trapping, Dynamical Magnetic Trapping, Quantized Conductance, The Josephson Effect, and Optical Tweezers, or students can design and build a Magnetoelectrodynamic Coin Shrinker demonstration. Each track presents interesting physics while still being fun to build and simple enough to enable less experienced students to be successful.The overarching goal of the Physics Design Lab is to allow students to become "practicing physicists" by giving them the opportunity to design their first experiment and to build their first simple piece of apparatus, while enabling them to learn basic experimental techniques through hands-on experience.

物理（13）这个项目正在加州理工学院开发一种新型的本科实验室课程，称为物理设计实验室。物理设计实验室是一个专业的实验室，本科生可以在专业的实验室环境中设计、构建和调试自己的物理实验，就像工程设计实验室中的工程设计实验室一样。 资源和设备可供学生“问自己的问题”和“设计自己的实验”在轨道相关的动态离子阱，动态磁阱，量子化电导，约瑟夫森效应，和光镊，或者学生可以设计和建立一个磁电动力硬币收缩演示。每一个轨道呈现有趣的物理学，同时仍然是有趣的构建和足够简单，使经验不足的学生能够成功。物理设计实验室的总体目标是让学生成为“实践物理学家”，让他们有机会设计他们的第一个实验，并建立他们的第一个简单的仪器，同时使他们能够通过动手体验学习基本的实验技术。