Author(s)

Gong Yanxiang ¹, Chen Shimin ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Taishan University, Taian City, Shandong, 271000, China
² Dongping County Senior High School, Dongping County, Taian, 271500, China

Corresponding Author

Gong Yanxiang

ABSTRACT

With the continuous development of physics education, how to help high school students better understand the complex concepts of dynamics has become an important challenge in teaching. Traditional teaching methods have certain limitations in explaining abstract concepts such as the laws of motion and the relationship between velocity and acceleration, while computational physics methods can intuitively show the motion process and dynamic changes through numerical simulation and visualization techniques to help students understand the core principles of dynamics more deeply. This paper proposes an idea of using computational physics methods to assist the teaching of high school dynamics, and demonstrates the practical application and advantages of computational physics in teaching through examples of uniform linear motion, uniformly accelerated motion and parabolic motion. The study shows that this method can not only improve students' mastery of the concept of dynamics, but also cultivate their ability to analyze and solve problems, thus providing an effective and innovative means for high school physics teaching.

KEYWORDS

Computational physics methods, high school physics education, dynamics concepts, numerical simulation, educational innovation

CITE THIS PAPER

Gong Yanxiang, Chen Shimin, Using computational physics methods to improve high school students' understanding of dynamics concepts. Transactions on Comparative Education (2024) Vol. 6: 126-131. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2024.060617.

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