Development of a virtual laboratory on the internet as support for physics laboratory training

Abstract

A virtual physics laboratory is being developed in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática of the Universidad de Valladolid (UVA). This laboratory will be accessible via the internet, and its main aim is to provide support for the real physics laboratory. In this paper we describe the main steps taken to develop such a laboratory. This virtual laboratory is currently accessible from http://cawdor.fa2.etit.uva.es/laboratorio/index.html. Se está desarrollando un laboratorio virtual de Física en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática de la UVA. Este laboratorio será accesible a través de internet y su principal finalidad es servir de ayuda al laboratorio real de Física. En este artículo describimos los principales pasos seguidos para el desarrollo del mismo. Actualmente este laboratorio es accesible desde http://cawdor.fa2.etit.uva.es/laboratorio/index.html.

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“…In other cases, teachers figure out and build their own experiments and arrange so called low-cost laboratories [9][10][11][12][13]. A third solution, since the advent of the Internet was, of course, the development of virtual (simulated) experiments and laboratories [14] that reproduce, using a computer program and graphics, the behavior of an experiment. The difference between this last solution and the two above is evident: while in the two first the students face real devices behavior with all their difficulties, the last one is only a mimic of the real world in the screen of a computer showing the expected result of the physical laws but not the difficulty inherent to real experimentation.…”

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