Physlets for quantum mechanics

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-97

  Belloni, Mario ^a   Christian, Wolfgang ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM THEORY; TEACHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PEDAGOGICAL TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 0037235749     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCISE.2003.1166558     Document Type: Review

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