REALbasic in Education: Pomona College Physics Professor Uses REALbasic to Bring "Six Ideas That Shaped Physics" to Students Using Windows or Macintosh
REAL Software, Inc., providers of REALbasic, cross platform that really works, announced today that Dr. Thomas A. Moore, author of a college curriculum and textbook series, Six Ideas That Shaped Physics," is using REALbasic to build software to accompany the curriculum. Dr. Moore's story is featured in a new case study at http://www.realsoftware.com/users/education/pomonacollege available from REAL Software.
AUSTIN, TX (PRWEB) September 7, 2005 --- REAL Software, Inc., providers of REALbasic, cross platform that really works, announced today that Dr. Thomas A. Moore, author of a college curriculum and textbook series, Six Ideas That Shaped Physics," is using REALbasic to build software to accompany the curriculum. Dr. Moore's story is featured in a new case study at http://www.realsoftware.com/users/education/pomonacollege available from REAL Software.
"Six Ideas That Shaped Physics" helps college students understand the fundamental concepts behind the study of physics. However, the math required to fully explain these concepts is more advanced than that required for college freshmen.
Dr. Moore is a physics professor and department chair at Pomona College. As an avid computer user, software seemed to be a great way to demonstrate the physics concepts and shelter the students from the complex math.
According to Dr. Moore, "for years I searched for a development environment that would make it simple for me to quickly develop software that would help students understand the physics without having to understand the advanced math behind it. I also wanted the broadest number of students to be able to use the software, so cross-platform compilation was a key consideration. Discovering REALbasic was like a dream come true."
As department chair of physics and astronomy and college professor, Dr. Moore has little time to spend programming. Before I found REALbasic, my available programming time over several years went into producing three very simple and limited programs that only ran on the Macintosh. Now, with much less effort, I have produced over twenty multi-platform programs, including vastly more sophisticated and powerful versions of the original three."
View a screenshot at http://www.realsoftware.com/users/education/pomonacollege/equilib_lg.gif of one of Dr. Moore's programs that demonstrates that solids that exchange energy randomly move toward equilibrium.
For more information about Dr. Moore's work "Six Ideas That Shaped Physics," or to download his software examples, please visit http://www.physics.pomona.edu/sixideas/.
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