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But, I don't believe computer simulations are a good way to teach
physics, which I shall not defend just yet, but I have already
that I have not been a successful teacher; so, all *ad hominem*attacks
can be considered to have been made *a priori*. I don't believehow
computers represent reality well enough for teaching regardless of
well they succeed in industry and science.How could one get some intuition on a system subjected to a
Best regards / The Dilettante
difussion process with a reactive term a la Ginzburg-Landau plus
a cubic term? How coul one check what some non-rigorous arguments
tell us about it? Do there a dynamical selection appears as we
think from studying other similar systems?...
Well simulations can help us in checking if a given model
could be appropiate for a given real process.
If we tell them this, would it prevent some of the misleading
ideas strudents get about simulation?
MA Santos