Computer Intensive Physics Robert G. Fuller

Portugal Conference

March 6, 19984 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ninety-nine percent are only studying physics to forward their other careers. Physics has a broader mission than just learning the physics content. This course tries to teach more than just physics. It uses physics as a way of fostering intellectual growth. How can we organize a classroom with no paper?(See Figure 4)

knowledge which were called modules. It turns out our paperless course ended up being organized in these individual modules. The learning cycle an instructional strategy developed by Karplus in the 1970's. More recently the computer-based laboratory courses in the United States are "Workshop Physics" and "Real Time Physics" and, in a very large classroom setting, "Studio Physics". At the University of Nebraska we tried to combine these ideas into something we call "Multimedia Physics Laboratories".

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