Physics Education Using Materials of Medicine and Life Sciences

本研究的目的如下：1）通过收集非生命世界和生命世界的材料来重组物理学。2)物理学多媒体展示和网络开放。3)将该系统应用于大学物理教学中，并探讨其教学效果，研究结果已出版两卷，约370页。为了方便学生在主页上查阅，我们还制作了网页（http：//www.saitama-med.ac.jp/uinfo/butsuri/），特别是帮助那些没有物理基础的学生准备讲座，作业和考试等。学生可以在这些网页上找到作业问题的提示，考试的解释和/或信息以及有助于理解讲座的有用材料（运动显示，链接到其他教育网站，可以找到教学材料，互动提问等）。电子教材的部分内容在课堂上使用powerpoint演示。在讲座中，我们尽可能多地使用带有移动插图和互动动画的例子，以使讲座更加熟悉和有趣。这些努力使学生的讲座更有趣，我们从学生的问卷调查的答复证实。我们已经发表了几篇论文，其中我们报告了与物理学和生命科学相关的材料的发现以及计算机模拟作为这项研究的结果。

The purpose of this research are as follows: 1) To reorganize physics by collecting materials both from non-living and living world. 2) To present physics by multimedia and to make it open to the public through the internet. 3) To apply the explored system to physics teaching at the university and to investigate the educational effect of its use.The results of the research have been reported with two volumes of books which consist from about 370 pages. The text was converted into an e-text so that students can approach to it through the homepage.We also made the web pages (http://www.saitama-med.ac.jp/uinfo/butsuri/) to assist students especially to those who do not have the basis of physics when preparing lectures, homework, and the examinations, etc. Students can find in these pages hints to homework problems, explanation and/or information on examinations and useful materials which help to understand lectures (display of motion, links to other educational sites where one can find teaching materials, interactive questionings etc.)Some parts of the e-text were demonstrated by using power-point during lectures. In the lectures we tried to use examples with moving illustrations and interactive animations as much as possible in order to make the lectures more familiar and interesting. Such efforts made students the lectures more interesting which we confirmed from the response to the questionnaire to students. We have published several papers in which we have reported findings as well as computer simulations of the materials related to physics and life sciences as the results of this research.