Doing Physics with Spreadsheets: Old Tricks for New Dogs

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...209.7123m&link_type=abstract

2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #71.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V

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Despite their decidedly “last year,” low-tech status, spreadsheets remain singularly efficient and accessible tools for solving a wide variety of problems in physics, presenting examples in the classroom, and conducting preliminary or exploratory computational research projects. Moreover, newer features have enhanced these capabilities. Because of the shallow learning curve, spreadsheets should be a tool in the arsenal of all physics students and faculty. I will present a number of examples drawn from mechanics, thermodynamics, and electrostatics illustrating graphical analysis, combinatorics, animation, and solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations. I am soliciting examples from the physics teaching community for a new website devoted to the dissemination of instructional materials in spreadsheet physics.

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