Saturday, October 31, 2009

AP Physics: Simulations

Hopefully my AP Physics students are beginning to wrap up their equatorial launches in the Lunar Lander project. This will put us on track for lunar orbit before the end of the semester.

Tonight I happened to be looking through one of my old college astrophysics texts - this one on models of stellar structure.

It occurred to me how useful it is to be able to make simulations (like in Excel) as an aid to understanding. This is something I'd like to share w/ the class next week: if you're in a science class in college and not following the material, maybe it's time to write a simulation!

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