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Selected Aspects of Magnetism in Virtual Laboratories and Remote Experiments

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9th Nordic Research Symposium on Science Education, Reykjavik, Iceland, (June 2008)

Abstract

The science of physics is built on theories and models as well as on experiments: the former structure relations and simplify reality to a degree such that predictions on physical phenomena can be derived by means of mathematics. The latter allow verifying--- or falsifying--- these predictions. Computer sciences allow a new access to this relationship, especially well-suited for education: New Media and New Technologies provide simulations for the model, virtual instruments for running and evaluating real experiments and mathematical toolkits to solve equations derived from the theory analytically and to compare the outcome of all three methods. We will demonstrate this approach on two examples: Ferro-magnetism and elementary thermodynamics.

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