Physlet® Workbooks:
Motion in a Plane (MIP)
Optics
Quantum Mechanics (QM)

Why Physlet Workbooks?

The book Physlets: Teaching Physics with Interactive Curricular Material, was written for teachers with an interest in developing their own material.  While hundreds of problems were written for the text and appeared on a CD, the problems were not quite ready-to-run.

The Physlet Workbook consists of material that can be assigned without modification.

The aim of the Workbook therefore, is to provide physics teachers with a collection of ready-to-run, interactive, computer-based curricular material spanning the entire introductory physics curriculum.  All that is required is the Physlet Workbook CD and a browser that supports Java and JavaScript to Java communication.

What Types of Materials Do (will) They Deliver?

In order to support these various teaching pedagogies, the Physlet Workbook contains curricular material in three formats:
 

• Illustrations animate what would normally be a static figure or a formula. They often illustrate a concept by allowing students to vary a physical parameter. 
   

• Exercises are open-ended tutorials exploring a particular concept. Students are asked several questions and must determine what to do and what to measure.  
   

• Problems are interactive versions of traditional questions that appear at the end of a chapter in most textbooks. They are focused and can require either a numeric or a conceptual answer.