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Teaching with Physlets: Examples from Optics

Physics Education 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Physlets are scriptable Java applets that can be used for physics instruction. In this article we discuss the pedagogical foundations of Physlet use and provide a sample of Physlet-based exercises that could be used to teach optics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0211028,
  title  = {Teaching with Physlets: Examples from Optics},
  author = {Melissa Dancy and Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0211028},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Published in The Physics Teacher, November 2002, pp. 494-499. 9 pages, 7 figures