Computer Intensive Physics Robert G. Fuller

Portugal Conference

March 6, 199819 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

different drops of milk. This software allows you to take video images of real events and have students do a detailed numerical analysis.

Now let us go through what a typical week might be like for the students showing the different kinds of things the students would have to do.

They hold them up and then drop them The sandbag falls and the coffee filter floats like a feather slowly down to the ground. [By the way coffee filters are very good scientific equipment. Because of the way that they are shaped they fall very nicely down straight (Derby and Fuller, 1997).]

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