RE: Learning from simulations

["John Gastineau" <john@gastineau.org>]

> > > Hestenes said,
> > > > The greatest deficiency of simulation software like INTERACTIVE
> > > > PHYSICS is that it fails to explicate (i.e., make explicit) the
> > structure
> > > > of the underlying model that generates the computer animations.
>
>
> 	Well, I guess that leaves a little bit for us teacher-types to
> add.....

Exactly. I don't see this as a deficiency of Interactive Physics at all. IP is
just one tool of many. One good strategy is to start with a simulation done in
IP, then work out the model in Modellus. Modellus, a
graphing/animation/modeling program also published by Knowledge Revolution,
lets you start from the differential equations of motion. I think that might
satisfy David.

JEG

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