Flash Simulations

Flash Simulations

PITFS developed interactive flash animations that allowed students to fully explore and understand a phenomenon and ultimately gave them better intuition about the physical concepts presented in the course.  Interactive animations for the following systems were created: single spring, rotating disk, double spring, double pendulum, falling rod, shaky table. Students were able to change the values of various parameters, animate the systems, and plot graphs of different variables.
 

Faculty/Instructor(s):

Associate Professor Robert Wood

Fellow(s):

Scott Denenberg, James Battat, Aaron Gibralter

School, Library, Museum:

Arts and Sciences

Project Deliverable:

Simulations of physical phenomena

Tools and/or Technologies:

Flash, ActionScript

Course(s)/Discipline(s):

Engineering Sciences 125: Mechanical Systems

Year Created:

2006

 

Supported by the Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching (HILT)