Developing Physlet Problems

A Multinational Approach to Authoring Interactive Curricular Material

The adoption of Internet standards, such as HTML and Java, enables the development and deployment of curricular material that can easily be adapted by others. Physlets, Java applets developed at Davidson College, are based on these standards and are now being used in half a dozen countries. This paper describes various curricular projects that have adopted Physlets and presents examples of their use. Links to these sites are also available from the Davidson Physlets site:

 http://webphysics.davidson.edu/applets/applets.html.

The Physlets project is supported by NSF, DUE-9752365.