Improving physics teaching

Teaching Biological Physics

© 2005 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0503-030-9 O the past few years, people trained in physics and working in physics departments have taken an unprecedented interest in biological problems. A host of new experimental and theoretical techniques has opened up the quantitative study of systems ranging from single molecules to networks of simple agents performing complex collective t...

Multimedia Support for Teaching Physics

The majority of the educational tools offer just a lot of facts, which are explained mostly by a text, rarely by some diagrams or simulations and only a few of them are interactive. We have created an interactive multimedia application, which simulates four experiments in physics and therefore can be used as a support for teaching physics. Our software has been developed using Macromedia Flash ...

Understanding and Teaching Ultrasound Physics

For sonography students and residents, ultrasound physics can be intimating and seemingly remote from their clinical responsibilities. This is primarily because of the difficulty in translating textbook physics concepts into their clinical practice. Although this may be a challenge in any discipline, in ultrasound physics it is compounded by the fact that what is seen, or measured, on the scann...

Teaching Computational Physics to Undergraduates

We discuss the advantages of incorporating computational physics into the undergraduate curriculum and the special advantages of a separate course that emphasizes computer simulations.

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