PhET: Interactive Simulations for Teaching and Learning Physics

The Physics Education Technology (PhET) project creates useful simulations for teaching and learning physics and makes them freely available from the PhET website (http://phet.colorado.edu). The simulations (sims) are animated, interactive, and game-like environments in which students learn through...

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Published in:The Physics teacher 2006-01, Vol.44 (1), p.18-23
Main Authors: Perkins, Katherine, Adams, Wendy, Dubson, Michael, Finkelstein, Noah, Reid, Sam, Wieman, Carl, LeMaster, Ron
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