Computer Intensive Physics Robert G. Fuller

Portugal Conference

March 6, 199817 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

For example here is the software that the student needed to use during the semester (See Figure 27). Word,,Excel,,PowerPoint [they made oral presentations], and VideoPointis a digital video software( I'll show just a little bit of it.), "MAPLE" is the symbolic algebra program. Netscapeis to get onto the world wide web.Science workshop does the computer-based real time labs. MoviePlayerplays video, andInteractive Physicsdoes simulations of physics systems.

Let me just make a little aside. I am not sure how many of you are aware of the Video Pointkinds of interactive video software programs. There are quite a few of them now on the market at least in the United States and I am sure in England also. What those programs do is play some video sequence in a window on the computer screen. Then with the mouse you can click on some point on the screen and the software will automatically give you the location of that point in x, y coordinates on the screen. If you calibrate the screen with a scale first, then the software will give locations in meters. If not then it gives it to you in actual pixel location on the screen which you can then later to convert to meters if you want.

The person that who
developed high speed photography, Harold
Edgerton at M.I.T., was from Nebraska. He grew up in a little tiny small town in Nebraska so we like to use his videos in our course.

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