Enhancing Physics Laboratories with Video Technology

清晰，明确，“真实世界”的物理实验室经验对于非物理专业学生对物理的欣赏和理解的发展至关重要。海德堡学院正在通过开发利用“视频系统”（摄像机、慢跑和穿梭播放器、监视器和三脚架）的实验室体验来解决这一需求。这笔拨款所获得的设备将用于进行运动学、动力学、动量、角运动和能量领域的实验。这些是学生们发现难以想象和理解的领域。视频设备为学生提供了记录这些地区常见的复杂或短时间事件的工具，并随着事件的及时进展逐步分析事件。视频系统的强大之处在于，它帮助学生观察和量化“真实世界”的事件，这些事件通常在介绍性实验室中由于大小、空间和时间的限制而无法考虑。对于非物理专业的学生来说，他们有时是第一次发现物理存在于实验室之外。国家科学基金会的资金正与来自非联邦来源的资金相匹配。

Clear, unambiguous, "real world" physics laboratory experiences are crucial for the development of an appreciation and understanding of physics by the non-physics major. Heidelberg College is addressing this need by developing laboratory experiences that utilize a "video system" (camcorder, jog and shuttle player, monitor and tripod).The equipment acquired with this grant is being used to conduct experiments in the areas of kinematics, dynamics, momentum, angular motion, and energy. These are areas which students have found difficult to visualize and understand. The video equipment is providing students with tools to record the complex or short duration events common to these areas, and analyze the events step-by- step as the events progress in time.The power of the video system is that it aids students in observing and quantifying "real world" events that normally cannot be considered in the introductory laboratory because of size, spatial, and time limitations. For non-physics majors, it is sometimes the first time they discover that physics exists outside of the laboratory.NSF funds are being matched with funds from non- federal sources.