Laboratory Enhancements To The General Physics Program

Muhlenberg学院物理系正在开发普通物理课程的研讨会物理方法。这些课程专门在实验室举行，学生通过进行大量的计算机辅助实验来探索主题。学生们从实践中学习，而正式的讲座已经被放弃。在过去，学生通常在课堂上扮演非常被动的角色，通过这种方式，学生更多地参与到学习过程中。他们决定进行基本实验的哪些变化，允许具有不同兴趣的学生探索所研究主题的不同方面。本课程围绕帕斯科科学公司的计算机接口系列6500系统进行设计，该系统也有各种专门为入门实验室设计的兼容设备。我们将在两到三年的时间里为所有普通物理学生分阶段开设这门新课程。

The Physics Department of Muhlenberg College is developing a workshop physics approach to the General Physics course. The courses meet exclusively in the laboratory where students explore topics by performing a large number of computer assisted experiments. Students learn by doing, while formal lectures have been abandoned. In the past students generally played a very passive role in lecture courses and with this approach students are more involved in the learning process. They make the decisions on what variations of the basic experiments to perform, allowing students with different interests to explore different aspects of the topic being studied. The course is structured around the computer interface Series 6500 system from Pasco Scientific, which also has a wide variety of compatible equipment specifically designed for the introductory lab. We are phasing the new course in for all general physics students over a two to three year period.