Modeling physics with easy java simulations

Physics Teacher

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 475-480

  Christian, Wolfgang ^a   Esquembre, Francisco ^b  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

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EID: 85006001562     PISSN: 0031921X     EISSN: 19434928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.2798358     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. M. Wells, D. Hestenes, and G. Swackhamer, "A modeling method for high school physics instruction," Am. J. Phys. 63, 606-619 (July 1995).
2. F.E. Cellier and J. Greifeneder, Continuous System Modeling (Springer, New York, 2006).
3. W. Christian, Open Source Physics: A User's Guide with Examples (Addison Wesley, New York, 2007). Simulations developed using the OSP library and OSP tools are available at http://www.opensourcephysics.org. Resources for Ejs modeling are located in the modeling subdirectory;
4. http://www.opensourcephysics.org/modeling.
5. W. Christian, M. Belloni, and D. Brown, "An open source XML framework for authoring curricular material," Comp. Sci. Eng. 8 (5), 51-58 (Sept./Oct. 2006).
6. Java is freely available under the GNU open source GPL license and installing it is no more difficult than installing other third-party software such as Acrobat or Flash readers. The most popular Java implementations are available from Sun Microsystems at http://java.sun.com/javase. The Apple Computer OS X operating system ships with Java installed.
7. F. Esquembre, Creación de Simulaciones Interactivas en Java (Prentice Hall, Madrid, 2005). The Ejs program, documentation, and examples can be downloaded from http://www.um.es/fem/Ejs.
8. The BQ Learning database contains many Ejs models. These models can be accessed at http://www.bqlearning.org.