• Koppula Vandana Devi

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) pose tremendous challenges to Physics teaching and learning. Computers, multimedia and the world-wide-web have provided some new tools for illustrating and explaining dynamic concepts of Physics. Among the various ICT applications, computer simulations are of special importance in Physics teaching and learning because they can support powerful modeling environments involving Physics concepts and processes. Simulations provide a bridge between students' prior knowledge and the learning of new physical concepts, helping students develop scientific understanding through an active reformulation of their mis-conceptions. This paper describes a family of simulators that have been developed to teach several topics in Physics like Kepler’s laws, interference and collisions. These simulators provide students with laboratories for experimenting with the phenomena in the context of real world situations. Students working with simulations exhibited significantly higher scores in their learning levels. Our findings strongly support that computer simulations may be used as an alternative instructional tool, in order to help students confront their cognitive constraints and develop functional understanding of Physics concepts like Kepler’s laws, Interference etc. in an effective manner.

Simulations, multimedia, interference, Kepler’s laws, collisions.

"Understanding of Physics Concepts in Context of Real World Experience using Simulations", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 5, page no.52-57, May-2016, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701708.pdf

"Understanding of Physics Concepts in Context of Real World Experience using Simulations", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 5, page no. pp52-57, May-2016, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701708.pdf