A Physics Computing Laboratory With an Interactive Digitized Video Component

本项目主要是实验课程开发项目之一。我们建议为北大普通物理课程开发数字化视频实验。在力学和波动方面的新实验将发展为提供给科学、工程和技术学生的普通物理课程。力学数据将在每个实验室开始时由学生在实验室指导老师的监督下进行采集和数字化。数字化电影将由学生在脚本化的多媒体工具书应用程序中逐帧播放，该应用程序允许使用鼠标和光标进行数据收集和随后的分析，通过与数值模拟数据或曲线拟合程序进行比较。此外，多媒体课程涉及现实世界的情况将开发使用多媒体工具书创作软件。这些课程将有助于探索物理原理与现实生活的联系，并有助于基础教育专业学生以及科学、工程和技术专业学生的课堂教学。在这个项目中，我们还计划研究学生的学习行为和对拟议实验相关概念的理解。将设计一份调查问卷，以获得学生对新实验室设备使用情况的反馈。从该项目中获得的结果将通过文章和/或实验室手册以及普渡大学万维网主页进行传播。

This project is primarily one of laboratory curriculum development. We propose to develop digitized video experiments for the general physics curriculum at PU/NC. New experiments in mechanics and wave motion will be developed for the general physics courses offered to science, engineering, and technology students. The mechanics data would be captured and digitized at the start of each laboratory by the students under the supervision of the laboratory instructor. The digitized movie would be played frame by frame by the students in a scripted Multimedia ToolBook Application which would allow the use of mouse and cursor for data collection and subsequent analysis by comparison to numerically modeled data or by curve fitting procedures. In addition, multimedia lessons involving real world situations will be developed using the Multimedia ToolBook authoring software. These lessons will help explore the connection of physics principles to real life situations and aid in classroom instruction of students majoring in elementary education as well as those in science, engineering and technology programs. In this project, we also plan to study the student's learning behavior and understanding of the concepts related to the proposed experiments. A survey questionnaire will be devised to obtain feedback from the students regarding the usage of the new laboratory equipment. The results obtained from this project will be disseminated through articles and/or laboratory manuals and through the Purdue Home Page on the World Wide Web.