Teaching with physlets®: Examples from optics

Physics Teacher

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 494-499

  Dancy, Melissa ^a   Christian, Wolfgang ^a   Belloni, Mario ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

curricular material; instructional technology; Java applets; optics; problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006102697     PISSN: 0031921X     EISSN: 19434928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1526622     Document Type: Article

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