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Scientific research involves mathematical modelling in the context of an interactive balance between theory, experiment and computation. However, computational methods and tools are still far from being appropriately integrated in the high…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-08-14 Rui Gomes Neves , Jorge Carvalho Silva , Vítor Duarte Teodoro

There is a growing consensus that physics majors need to learn computational skills, but many departments are still devoid of computation in their physics curriculum. Some departments may lack the resources or commitment to create a…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-13 Todd Timberlake , Javier E. Hasbun

In order to understand the physics phenomea on the fundamental aspects, the software simulations are a good exercise to succed in this way. Some work of heat transport and molecular physics laboratory are studied in a comparative mode…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Murariu , Dorina Toma

Students taking introductory physics are rarely exposed to computational modeling. In a one-semester large lecture introductory calculus-based mechanics course at Georgia Tech, students learned to solve physics problems using the VPython…

Physics Education · Physics 2011-12-22 Marcos D. Caballero , Matthew A. Kohlmyer , Michael F. Schatz

The practice-based learning methodologies offer to undergraduate professors different ways to illustrate certain general physic principles. Traditional experimental workbenches have been extensively used during decades for academic lessons…

Quantum mechanics is difficult to learn because it is counterintuitive, hard to visualize, mathematically challenging, and abstract. The Physics Education Technology (PhET) Project, known for its interactive computer simulations for…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-13 S. B. McKagan , K. K. Perkins , M. Dubson , C. Malley , S. Reid , R. LeMaster , C. E. Wieman

We have designed an introductory laboratory course that engaged first-year undergraduate students in two complementary types of iteration: (1) iterative improvement of experiments through cycles of modeling systems, designing experiments,…

Differences between computer simulation of dynamical systems and laboratory experiments are common in teaching and research in engineering. Normally, numerical inaccuracy and the non-ideal behaviour of the devices involved in the experiment…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 M. L. C. Peixoto , E. G. Nepomuceno , H. M. Rodrigues , S. A. M. Martins , G. F. V. Amaral

We describe the development of a junior-senior level course for Physics majors designed to teach Mathematica skills in support of their undergraduate coursework, but also to introduce students to modern research level results. Standard…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-12-17 R. W. Robinett

To enhance the undergraduate and graduate engineering education for nanoscale materials, devices and systems, we report a multi-disciplinary course based on the integration of theory, hands-on laboratory and hands-on computation into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-27 Hassan Raza , Tehseen Z. Raza

These are the lecture notes of the master's course "Quantum Computing", taught at Chalmers University of Technology every fall since 2020, with participation of students from RWTH Aachen and Delft University of Technology. The aim of this…

Simulation tools are playing an increasingly important role in materials science and engineering and beyond their well established importance in research and development, these tools have a significant pedagogical potential. We describe a…

In our days, the necessity of laboratory apparatus accustoming by building up specific software objects for studying the virtual evolution of physical phenomena is a major request. In this respect, the aim of the present paper is to present…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Murariu

We implement in a reactive programming framework a simulation of three aspects of quantum mechanics: self-interference, state superposition, and entanglement. The simulation basically consists in a cellular automaton embedded in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Frédéric Boussinot

In this work, we simulate the behavior of photons in a laboratory experiment using a quantum computer and examine how the simulation results compare with the theoretical predictions. The experiment involves both protective and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Priyasheel Prasad , Marco Russo , Bartolomeo Montrucchio

Quantum entanglement is a captivating phenomenon in quantum physics, characterized by intricate and non-classical correlations between particles. This phenomenon plays a crucial role in quantum computing and measurement processes. In this…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-04 Salomo Cedric Karst , Jürgen Henk

In the article the problems of the systems of computer mathematics use as a tool for the students learning and research activities support are investigated. The promising ways of providing access to the mathematical software in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Mariya Shyshkina , Uliana Kohut , Maiia Popel

In most of the cases, the experimental study of Nanotechnology involves high cost for Laboratory set-up and the experimentation processes were also slow. So, one cannot rely on experimental nanotechnology alone. As such, the Computer-Based…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Tamal Sarkar , Samir Chandra Das , Ardhendu Mandal

In computer experiments, a mathematical model implemented on a computer is used to represent complex physical phenomena. These models, known as computer simulators, enable experimental study of a virtual representation of the complex…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-07-03 Hugh Chipman , Pritam Ranjan , Weiwei Wang

Writing and argumentation are critical to both professional physics and physics education. However, the skill of making an extended argument in writing is often overlooked in physics classrooms, apart from certain practices like lab…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-06-19 Tor Ole B. Odden , John Burk