labs Practices

3 Practices are tagged with "labs"

A Welcome to Let's Code Physics

March 17, 2021 by W. Brian Lane

The Let's Code Physics YouTube channel has many tutorials freely available for you to integrate into your physics course. Designed for physics courses of any level, these tutorials introduce physics concepts and computational methods together to help your students explore interesting problems that would otherwise remain inaccessible.

python,  intro classical,  intro e&m,  numerical methods,  labs,  tracker


Introducing Computation: A Laboratory Approach

November 4, 2020 by Kevin Adkins & Jennifer Birriel

Introductory physics lectures are generally short on time and finding time to integrate computation isn't trivial. One alternative is to move the computational exercises to the laboratory portion of the course and replace a few traditional labs with computational labs covering the same material. Here, we describe our computational laboratory implementation and present two complete exercises.

labs,  excel,  spreadsheets,  arduino,  intro e&m,  intro classical


Capture, Code, Compare: Integrating computational modeling with video analysis

March 9, 2020 by W. Brian Lane

Capture, Code, Compare activities combine hand-on labs with computer modeling.  Students use video tracking to capture the motion of an object, code a model that reproduces the behavior of the physical system, then compare the quantitative results of the video analysis with the results from the computer model.  I'll go through an example of one of my activities in an introductory mechanics course.

labs,  tracker,  intro classical