---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Jamous <jamous(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Feb 9, 2007 10:23 AM
Subject: Fwd: [abcd-flash] Meeting: Thursday, Feb 15 -- Flash Physics
Simulations
To: Howard Georgi <hgeorgi(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>, Eric Heller <
heller(a)physics.harvard.edu>gt;, "Patrick J. Wolfe"
<patrick(a)deas.harvard.edu>du>,
Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com>om>, "John H. Shaw"
<shaw(a)eps.harvard.edu>
Cc: Philip Desenne <desenne(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>, Robert Wood <
rjwood(a)eecs.harvard.edu>gt;, Scott Denenberg <denenber(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Hi,
FYI: an event that might be of interest to you and your colleagues. Feel
free to forward to anyone who might be interested.
Thanks,
Daniel
Begin forwarded message:
*From: *Philip Desenne <desenne(a)fas.harvard.edu>
*Date: *February 8, 2007 3:56:21 PM EST
*To: *"abcd-flash(a)abcd.harvard.edu FLASH" <abcd-flash(a)abcd.harvard.edu>
*Cc: *ABCD TIE <abcd-edutech(a)abcd.harvard.edu>du>, abcd-www(a)abcd.harvard.edu
*Subject: **[abcd-flash] Meeting: Thursday, Feb 15 -- Flash Physics
Simulations*
Hi all.
Please come join us or invite a colleague to our next ABCD-FLASH
meeting Thursday, February 15:
*Flash Physics Simulations*
by James Battat (Ph.D candidate in Astronomy) and Aaron Gibralter
('07, Physics concentrator)
As part of a Presidential Instructional Technology Fellowship (PITF)
summer project we have developed a suite of interactive mechanical physics
simulations for the course Engineering Sciences 125: Mechanical Systems.
Physical systems can exhibit complex behavior. With the use of
computer simulations, it is possible to teach students about the nature of
these systems without trudging through complicated differential equations.
We found that several canned animations demonstrating physical phenomena
existed on the web, but we noticed a surprising lack of full-up interactive
physics simulation engines in Flash. We aimed to fill that void by
developing a virtual physics lab using Flash (ActionScript 2.0). We modeled
our work on the open-source Java project at
www.MyPhysicsLab.com.
We'll tell you about our class-based project, demo our simulations, and
explain how various components of our software (e.g. a graphing package)
could be useful to other projects. In addition, we encourage you to use
and/or further develop this software. The interactive simulations can be
seen at:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jbattat/pitf/engin125/<http://www.cfa.harvar…
With your attendance to our meetings, you are eligible to enter a
raffle to win an Adobe application (valued up to $2100).
*Lunch will be provided - pizza, drinks*
*When:* Thursday, February 15 from 12:15pm to 1:45pm
*Where:* Lamont Forum Room of the Lamont Library (wheelchair accessible).
Additional info about the meeting location:
The Lamont library guard will ask to see your Harvard ID
Visitors will need to sign in if you don't have a Harvard ID
Map to Lamont Library:
http://www.map.harvard.edu/level2.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile;=F7&…
Visit our web site:
http://wwwabcd.harvard.edu/harvard/groups/abcd-flash/
We hope to see you there!
Regards,
Phil
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Philip A. Desenne
desenne(a)fas.harvard.edu
Senior Specialist for Instructional Computing
Instructional Computing Group
FAS Computer Services
Harvard University
Daniel Jamous, Ph.D.
Senior Specialist for Instructional Computing in the Sciences and Social
Sciences
Instructional Computing Group
http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/
Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services
Science Center 400
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-7571
jamous(a)fas.harvard.edu
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Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617)384-8188
Group URL:
http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu