Focus on Physics - Computers in the Introductory Laboratory

该项目的主要目的是创造一个现代化的 实验室环境的介绍物理学生在 允许学生集中注意力， 尽可能完全地依赖于系统的物理特性， study. 该项目的第二个目的是创建一个 懂技术入门的学生。 这些都 意味着消除那些功能不佳的干扰， 设备，过时的数据收集技术，以及 数学上的乏味 这意味着增加以下方面的支持 最新的计算机，电子数据收集通过各种 传感器和用于复杂数据分析的软件。 这个新的实验室环境已经到位，它 让学生更容易识别潜在的 物理原理在更广泛的现实世界的现象 比以前现有的设备更有可能，因此 学生对物理的理解及其与他的相关性 或者她自己的兴趣领域得到了提升。 护理的 在实验室实验的设计中进行练习， 学生可以使用这种先进技术的力量， 而不是把它当作另一个黑匣子。 在 为了实现本项目的目标， 今天的物理学学生将研究明天的问题 更好地掌握了物理原理， 问题和解决这些问题所需的技术。

The primary aim of this project is to create a modern laboratory environment for the introductory physics student in which the student is allowed to focus his or her attention as completely as possible on the physics of the system under study. A secondary aim of this project is to create a technologically literate introductory student. These have meant removing the distractions of poorly functioning equipment, outmoded data collection techniques, and mathematical tedium. These have meant adding the support of up-to-date computers, electronic data collection via a variety of transducers, and software for sophisticated data analysis. This new laboratory environment has been put into place and it allows the student to identify more easily the underlying physical principles in a wider range of real-world phenomena than was possible with the previously existing equipment, thus the students understanding of physics and its relevance to his or her own field of interest has been improved. Care has been exercised in the design of laboratory experiments so that the student can use the power of this technologically advanced equipment without treating it as just another blackbox. In achieving the aims of this project, one ensures that the physics student of today will approach the problems of tomorrow with a better grasp of physical principles underlying those problems and of the technology necessary to solve them.