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I am an adjunct physics instructor teaching at a community college. I have
been trying to get the full time faculty to add computer simulations to
their lab courses and computer programming to their homework assignments.
The lab simulations need not replace the physical lab but could supplement
the existing lab by pre (or post) showing the students how typical results
"should" turn out.
Assigning a few such problems, over the semester, as homework (or even a
full lab session ) seems worthwhile to me.
While the full time instructors acknowledge that such computer
simulations/homework may be useful, they maintain that such work
(particularly, the lab simulations) belongs in junior/senior year level
courses
and the freshman/sophomore courses we exclusively teach (as a
community college) should only contain real physical measurements.
I'd appreciate your inputs on your experiences on either using such
simulations/homework in freshman/sophomore courses or why you have not done
so.