Physics Teaching with Simulation Techniques

Software Simulation Techniques for Teaching Communication Systems

Theoretical concepts learnt during lectures are usually reinforced by experimental work. Computer simulations in many cases are an attractive alternative to hardware implementation. This is due to factors such as ease of system implementation, interactiveness, availability and growing use of fast personal computers. In this article a programming language known as Matlab is used to demonstrate t...

Teaching Simulation with Spreadsheets

This paper focuses on a spreadsheet-based approach to teaching simulation. The objective is to introduce spreadsheets as a powerful simulation tool for educational purposes. The spreadsheet simulation facilitates the familiarisation with basic simulation concepts apart from simulation software. The paper deals with basic types of simulation models suitable for spreadsheets. The static stochasti...

Advances in High-fidelity Multi-physics Simulation Techniques

Using Virtual Reality Techniques for the Simulation of Physics Experiments

Educational software has known significant evolution over the past few years due to the introduction of technologies such as multimedia and the World Wide Web. These innovations have significantly offered in the field of computer-based instruction, by providing the means for remote, interactive and intuitive applications. There are, however, some categories of applications such as Virtual Labor...

Teaching and Learning Physics with Smartphones

The use of mobile technologies is reshaping how we teach and learn. In this paper we describe our research on the use of these technologies to teach physics. On the one hand we develop mobile applications to complement the traditional learning and to help students learn anytime and anywhere. The use of this applications has proved to have very positive influence on the students engagement. On t...