Re: Physics education via the internet?

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com>]

> Hugh Haskell asked:
>
> > But what does the issue of simulation have to do with the internet, which
> > is what this thread was all about in the first place? Can we access any of
> > NASA's simulators that way? Are their simulators resident on the internet
> > that cannot be downloaded to local computers?
Richard Bowman replied (in part):
> With the use of Java and JavaScript, we can finally work at truly
> interactive simulations on the Internet. By the very nature of the
> Internet, this means that the simulations I write as web pages will run
> equally well on a PC with Windows 95, on a Mac or on a Unix box as long as
> they have a JavaScript interpreter which is built into MS Internet
> Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
That certainly answers my question. Since I have not gotten into webbing, I
was pretty much unaware of some of its potential. Now the question is, can
these simulations run fast enough over the internet to give the students
any kind of feel for the dynamics? I know I spend a whole lot of dead time
staring at the Netscape screen, waiting for something to happen. Can we
avoid this in Java driven simulations?

Hugh



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The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better." So I bought a Macintosh.
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