Virtual Experiments for Physics Labs

物理(13)。本项目进行了系统的研究，以获得在物理教学中使用虚拟实验技术的有效性的令人信服的证据，并开发了在介绍性物理实验室中实施虚拟实验的课程材料。在之前的研究中，pi发现使用虚拟实验可以帮助学生更直观地理解困难的物理概念，并提高实验室对学生学习的有效性。该项目具有智力价值，因为它为教学实验室带来了尖端的计算技术，而教学实验室是STEM学科中非常重要的教育组成部分。它推动了物理教育领域的技术进步，创造了新的教学策略。研究的广泛影响可以考虑在几个领域。VE技术本身在帮助提高学生对物理和学习物理的兴趣、动机和态度方面有很多优势。让人们负担得起一项新技术，可以在更大范围内对改善教育环境产生重大影响。从更普遍的角度来看，物理反馈是计算机模拟的一个新组成部分。在医学应用中，试图模仿真实的东西。动画师已经发现，模仿最好在可能的情况下用物理代替，而这个项目在将物理添加到VE环境中具有重要意义。这项研究的结果也可以导致为物理科学的广泛内容领域开发VE技术的全面项目。

Physics (13). This project conducts systematic research to obtain convincing evidence about the effectiveness of using virtual experiment (VE) technologies in teaching physics and develops curriculum materials for implementation of VE in the introductory physics labs. In previous research, the PIs have found that using virtual experiments can help students understand difficult physics concepts at a more intuitive level and improve the effectiveness of laboratories on student learning. This project has Intellectual Merit as it brings cutting-edge computing technology to address the teaching laboratory that is a very important educational component of a STEM discipline. It advances technology and creates new strategies in the field of physics education. The Broad Impacts of the research can be considered in several areas. The VE technology itself has many advantages in helping improve students' interests, motivations, and attitudes toward physics and learning physics. Making a new technology affordable can have a significant impact in improving the education environment at a much larger scale. From a more general perspective, physical feedback is a novel component addition to a computer simulation. In medical applications, the attempt is to mimic the real thing. Animators have discovered that mimicking is best replaced by physics when possible and this project has significance in adding physics to the VE environment. The results of this research can also lead to full scale projects that develop VE technologies for a wide range of content areas in physical science.