Incorporating Computer Modeling into the Upper-Division Physics Curriculum

物理（13）本项目将计算机建模纳入高年级物理课程。具体而言，模块改编自文献中的研究文章，并在电磁学，光学，统计力学和热力学以及量子力学课程中开发。开发这些模块的目的是：通过引入实质性的、真实的内容来增加课程材料的适用性。通过学生直接参与问题解决的各个方面来提高理解，建立学生的计算技能。这些模块解决了物理界的需求，即在某些技术领域工作的大多数物理学士学位获得者认为他们缺乏本科准备。这些模块通过培养解决实质性问题的计算技能来解决这一问题，从而为课程中其他部分培养的分析和实验技能提供了一种补充的教育体验。对计算的强调具有潜在的更广泛的影响：专业内的多个专业（例如计算物理）为毕业生提供了市场所需的技能，也鼓励了对物理有广泛科学兴趣的学生主修物理。此外，扩大学生发现物理是如何完成的方式比通常吸引更广泛的学生受众。

Physics (13) The project incorporates computer modeling in the upper-division physics curriculum. Specifically, modules are adapted from research articles in the literature and developed in the Electricity and Magnetism, Optics, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, and Quantum Mechanics courses. The purpose of developing these modules is to: Increase the applicability of the course material by introducing substantive, real-world. problems into the upper classes, Improve understanding through direct student participation in all aspects of problem solving, Build the computational skill set of the students. These modules address a need identified by the physics community, that the majority of Physics Bachelor recipients employed in certain technical fields felt that their undergraduate preparation was lacking. These modules address this concern by developing computational skills to attack substantive problems, thereby providing an educational experience complementary to the analytical and laboratory skills developed in other parts of the curriculum. The emphasis on computation has a potentially broader impact: Multiple tracks within the major (for example computational physics) provide graduates with marketable skills and also encourage students with broad scientific interests to major in physics. Furthermore, expanding the ways in which students discover how physics is done appeals to a broader student audience than usual.