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<msantos@etse.urv.es> writes:
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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
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
Please repeat this communication with some of the garbled sentences
cleaned up and some motivation for its intent supplied. I can't read
your mind without eye contact ;-) (I'm sure we will both benefit from
that exercise.)
I think you are making a case for *some* (thoughtful?) computer
simulations (after some analysis, hopefully) in research but not in the
classroom. But I'm not sure. - TLW