Physics Education Using Materials of Medicine and Life Sciences

本研究的目的是：1)从非生物世界和生物世界收集材料，重新组织物理学。2)通过多媒体呈现物理，并通过互联网向公众开放。3)将所探索的系统应用于大学物理教学，并考察其应用的教育效果。研究结果已在两卷约370页的书中发表。文本被转换成电子文本，以便学生可以通过主页接近它。我们还制作了网页（http://www.saitama-med.ac.jp/uinfo/butsuri/）来帮助学生，特别是那些没有物理基础的学生准备讲座、作业和考试等。学生可以在这些网页上找到家庭作业问题的提示，解释和/或考试信息，以及有助于理解讲座的有用材料（动作显示，链接到其他可以找到教学材料的教育网站，互动提问等）。在讲座中，我们尽可能多地使用带有动图和互动动画的例子，使讲座更加熟悉和有趣。这样的努力让学生们对讲座更加感兴趣，这一点我们从对学生的问卷调查中得到了证实。我们已经发表了几篇论文，在这些论文中，我们报告了研究结果以及与物理和生命科学相关的材料的计算机模拟。

The purpose of this research are as follows: 1) To reorganize physics by collecting materials both from non-living and living world. 2) To present physics by multimedia and to make it open to the public through the internet. 3) To apply the explored system to physics teaching at the university and to investigate the educational effect of its use.The results of the research have been reported with two volumes of books which consist from about 370 pages. The text was converted into an e-text so that students can approach to it through the homepage.We also made the web pages (http://www.saitama-med.ac.jp/uinfo/butsuri/) to assist students especially to those who do not have the basis of physics when preparing lectures, homework, and the examinations, etc. Students can find in these pages hints to homework problems, explanation and/or information on examinations and useful materials which help to understand lectures (display of motion, links to other educational sites where one can find teaching materials, interactive questionings etc.)Some parts of the e-text were demonstrated by using power-point during lectures. In the lectures we tried to use examples with moving illustrations and interactive animations as much as possible in order to make the lectures more familiar and interesting. Such efforts made students the lectures more interesting which we confirmed from the response to the questionnaire to students. We have published several papers in which we have reported findings as well as computer simulations of the materials related to physics and life sciences as the results of this research.