Project Number
- 68
Title
- WaveMaker: A Computer Simulation for the Classroom of Tomorrow
Description
- Interactive computer graphics simulator for teaching high school physics.
Contact
- Freeman Deutsch
Affiliation
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Address
- Science Education Department
- 60 Garden Street, MS 71
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
- +1.617.496.4788
- +1.617.496.5405 fax
- 60 Garden Street, MS 71
- fdeutsch@cfa.harvard.edu
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "WaveMaker" is an interactive computer graphics simulation for teaching high school physics.
- Using existing commercially available components, the waveform simulator lab is an estimation of the types of computer teaching labs available to high schools in five years.
- Computer simulations are easier to control and more cost effective than other modern physics teaching tools.
Sight
- Macintosh II, 68881 FPU, monitor, VCR
Sound
- Macintosh II, 68881 FPU, monitor, VCR
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 306 - education
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- WaveMaker was a winner of the 1991 Computer and Physics Software Contest.
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