Spreadsheet-Based Exercises for Introductory Laboratories

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Jan 2003

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The Physics Teacher, Volume 41, Issue 1, pp. 18-19 (2003).

Physics

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Laboratory Course Design, Organization, And Evaluation

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The astronomy curriculum at Las Positas College is a familiar one to many readers - a lecture course on the solar system, another on stars and galaxies, and a separate laboratory course. The laboratory therefore has students who have never heard of some topics, and others who have just had lectures on them. Also, many topics cannot be brought into the laboratory, leading us to rely heavily upon computer-based exercises. Two of these are Kepler's laws of planetary motion and stellar structure. In developing these exercises, we have explored the use of the Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet program. Excel has the advantage of being easier to learn and implement than Java, while also being able to do sophisticated computations.1, 2 At the same time, it may be used to present material in a visually appealing manner, resembling the layout of webpages.

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