Abstract of Paper presented at First European Conference on Physics Teaching in Engineering Education (PTEE97) Engineering College of Copenhagen (IKT), Copenhagen, Denmark, 46 June 1997.
Interactive lecture demonstrations using MBL-equipment.
Jonte Bernhard
School of Engineering, Högskolan Dalarna, S-781 88 Borlänge, Sweden,
With microcomputer based laboratory (MBL) equipment, suitable software, a portable computer and a LCD-projector an active learning enviroment can be created in lecture classes. The MBL-equipment makes it possible to collect physical data in real-time and the data is immediately avaible for analysis and presentation. This enables the lecturer to demonstrate and analyse rapid phenomena like force and momentum changes in collision experi-ments or to address the outcome of changes in experimental parameters in a real world experiment or a simulated experiment using software like Interactive Physics, PSpice or MATLAB. The quick response makes it possible to succesfully implement interactive lectures.
Link to Full Paper (pdf-format)