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- "Conceptual Kinematics does its own teaching! Its interactive nature keeps students involved and working cooperatively."
-John Skrocky, Northwest High School, Omaha, NE
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Conceptual Kinematics
Frank Griffin
University of Akron
Louis Turner
Western Reserve Academy
Conceptual Kinematics provides the busy teacher with an effective, self-paced tutorial. An ideal complement to sonic ranger experiments, Conceptual Kinematics gives your students the practice they need to understand and apply the definitions of position, velocity, and acceleration.
Conceptual Kinematics presents animations, strobe photographs, and multiple graphical representations of motion. The tutorial questions have distracter responses based on common student misconceptions, so that any conceptual problems held by students will be quickly detected. When an incorrect response is given, the program repeats the animation and offers additional information, such as a velocity meter. This helps students focus their attention on the changes of the appropriate quantity. After a student has successfully completed the tutorial questions and animations, Conceptual Kinematics switches to a quiz mode to test the learning. A built-in record-keeping system keeps track of scores, identification, and time spent.
All students take most seriously those topics they are tested on, the Conceptual Kinematics manual provides graphical interpretation test questions that relate directly to kinematics learned by using the program. These questions can be easily included on your traditional in-class exams. 50 pp.
System Requirements:
The PC version requires a PC with the following features:
- VGA graphics
- 640 K RAM
- DOS 3.3 or later
- Microsoft - compatible mouse
- 3.5" disk drive
- Hard disk with 1.6 MB of space available
- Math coprocessor (highly recommended)
- Printer
- System software version 6.O or higher
- Hard disk with 2.2 MB of space available
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- DOS
ISBN 1-56396-200-4- Mac CD-ROM
ISBN 1-56396-176-8 - DOS
| Single copy | $140.00 |
| High School Site License | $350.00 |
| 10-copy lab pack | $560.00 |
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REVIEWS- "The software serves as a 'virtual laboratory' in which users can run experiments, take measurements, and plot graphs. Users can also perform what Albert Einstein called Gedanken experiments-'though experiments' that are impossible to conduct in a real laboratory."
- Computers in Physics, March/April 1997
- "Some of the simulations even show the 'experimental set up' as a three dimensional representation that can be viewed from any angle. This provides a great deal of flexibility."
- Alastair Gillies and Bruce Sinclair, Physics World, July 1997
MORE PICTURES- Definition of Position
- Introduction to Graphing
- Area Under a V-T Graph
- Defining Acceleration
- S-T Graph and A-T Graph
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