Teaching physics by means of computer modeling

✍ Scribed by Pál Pacher; Géza Márk; László Udvardi; Imre Varga

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 518 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4655
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4655(90)90126-l

✦ Synopsis

Computer modeling in teaching physics has a growing importance. It helps to solve and understand complex physical problems using numerical methods, computer simulation and animation. Typical examples developed in our institute are presented: the 3-body problem, the Van der Pol oscillator, the recursive graphs and the problem of the ideal gas simulation. Both the numerical and the modeling difficulties are discussed. 1 .