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Cuple 2.0: The Developer's Version

Jack M. Wilson
Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute

Edward F. Redish
University of Maryland

Are you looking for new ways to incorporate multimedia resources into your classroom? Would you like to have a versatile, integrated platform where you can create your own courseware material? If so, you need CUPLE - the Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment. By combining a powerful array of tools and video, CUPLE offers remarkable teaching and learning possibilities anywhere physics education takes place - in lectures, laboratories, workshops, homework, or independent study.

CUPLE's multimedia platform includes a versatile range of applications and uses for a variety of instructional needs:

Laboratories
Reference materials
Links to video clips
Interactive tutorials
Problem assignments
Customized lecture notes
Video/graphing-overlay capabilities

CUPLE's ever-expanding subject base includes modules on a diverse selection of physics topics, as well as a detailed glossary and references:

Astronomy	Graphing	Electricity
Thermodynamics	Magnetism	Relativity
Mechanics	Optics	Dynamics
Vibration	Kinematics	Rotation
Energy	Momentum	Light

Inside CUPLE, you will find a collection of effective educational tools including text, graphics, and animation; computer-based video tools; microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) tools; WinPhys, an object-oriented programming environment; spreadsheet physics materials; and databases of physics demonstrations and experiments.

Text Materials. You can easily familiarize yourself with CUPLE through its comprehensive written materials. These include information in modular form taken from PhysNet and material from Workshop Physics that introduces physics topics through hands-on laboratory activities.

Video Applications. With no additional hardware, you can play and analyze many digital video files in Video for Windows. You can take video from videotapes, videodisks, and compressed digital video and utilize it to demonstrate specific aspects of physics. Video tools enable you to control a videodisk or special videotape player through the computer. Overlay graphs onto the video screen for real-time data acquisition of phenomena. CUPLE 2.0 comes with over 200 MB of video. The video tool allows you to control the animation, mark each frame, and export the data to Excel or another spreadsheet application.

MBL Tools. CUPLE supports Team Lab's (formerly IBM's) Personal Science Laboratory and Vernier's Universal Lab Interface (ULI). These MBL tools are always accessible and make it possible for you to exchange data between applications within CUPLE.

WinPhys. The WinPhys tools provide you with object-oriented programming, using Borland's Turbo Pascal, to learn about physics. WinPhys also allows you to build your own programs for accessing the ULI.

Spreadsheet Materials. Spreadsheets are invaluable tools for learning physics, especially when you are dealing with simple problems and formulas. They allow you to see all of your data at once, which makes it easier to identify data trends and perform multiple calculations.

Databases of Demonstrations and Experiments. If you are interested in demonstrations and simulations, CUPLE offers a database of demonstrations and experiments taken from A Demonstration Handbook for Physics and String and Sticky Tape Experiments. These practical physics applications are conveniently linked to specific topics within CUPLE.

The CUPLE toolbox is never full, because the program's open-ended design makes it easy to expand existing models and add new ones. Its powerful developmental capabilities encourage the generation of new materials by any educator using CUPLE.

CUPLE gives instructors the opportunity to present phenomena that are well beyond the bounds of traditional classroom exploration. The CUPLE forum is ideal for teaching at the undergraduate level, and its easy authoring system allows for development of secondary school-level through graduate-level materials. Developer's manual, 168 pp.

CUPLE is an on-going development project, registered owners of the Developer's version will receive free updates as they become available for one year after purchase date. You can submit your own modules for inclusion in the next update of CUPLE. For submission information, contact Dr. E.F. Redish, the CUPLE Editor at Physics Academic Software.

System Requirements:
The computer that you use to run CUPLE must have the following hardware:

PC compatible computer with a 486 or higher processor
hard drive with 32 MB of free Space for full installation without video files or 4.O MB of free space for a client or CD-ROM- based installation
have at least 8 MB of RAM (16 MB recommended if your operation system is Windows 95)
have graphics capability of VGA or better a PCI video accelerator is recommended

If you want to capture videos to use with CUPLE 2.O, you will need a video capture card. The Intel Smart Video Recorder Pro is recommended. The Intel package comes with software to capture and edit digital video.

If you want to use the CUPLE data acquisition programs, you will need the Universal Lab Interface (ULI) from Vernier Software. This device attaches to a serial (comm) port on your computer. It use probes attached to the ULI to take measurements and send data to your computer. The ULI comes with software from Vernier that can be used with CUPLE 2.O. (Notes AR this time, the CUPLE data acquisition will not work with the newer ULI II interface).

The computer that you use to run CUPLE must have the following software:

Microsoft Windows 3.O, 3.1, 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) or Windows 95 as its operating system.
If you want to play and take data from the videos that come with CUPLE 2.O, you will need Microsoft Video for Windows, version 1.1 or later. The CUPLE 2.O CD-ROM has the installation files for Video for Windows 1.1e Runtime.
Asymetrix ToolBook 3.O. All of the CUPLE 2.O modules are ToolBook 3.O files. To be able to run CUPLE 2.O, you must have ToolBook 3.O installed. The CUPLE 2.O CD-ROM comes with (and will install) Runtime ToolBook 3.O, which takes up approximately 2.2 MB of drive space. If you wish to be able to edit modules or create new modules, you will need the full (authoring) version of ToolBook 3.O.

It is recommended that your computer also have the following software installed:

Microsoft Exel 4.O, or higher


Windows ISBN 1-56396-184-9

Single copy $500.00

High School Site License $1250.00

10-copy lab pack $2000.00

Student License - License for 10 copies of the program; May only be purchased in conjunction with a single copy of the developer's version. Additional copies $50.00 each. $500.00

Funding provided by The Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project, the IBM Corporation, and the National Science Foundation. Sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers.

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"Contains hypertext links to simulations, computer-based labs, video, graphics packages and reference material. A physics course could therefore be delivered with CUPLE and nothing else."
Alastair Gillies and Bruce Sinclair, Physics World, July 1997

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