In our initial tests in Brazil classes, the students have shown a quick and better understanding of the physical content when they used the Algodoo’s simulation. This tool can be applied to students from different education levels, and also to undergraduate and high school students. All simulations results will be compared to theory, by the equations of motion of the oblique motion. In the next step, we evaluated, through Algodoo’s graphical tools, the observed effects in the first stage, by calculating the maximum height, the particle’s range and the rise time. We also emphasize the modification of the velocity vector and its components along the motion. This study is organized in two stages: first we discuss a qualitative analysis of movement, emphasizing the trajectory of the object, while we control some parameters, in this case, the velocity magnitude and the launch angle. And it is addressed in the Algodoo environment, highlighting its easy manipulation. In this paper, we present a classic physics problem in high school and undergraduate courses: the oblique motion. The software is available for Mac, Windows, and iPad platforms. When used on a computer with internet access, the Algodoo makes available to the users the opportunity to publish or access multiple projects in a free dynamical database. For a deeper analysis, the software offers graphics display of several variables, and also the visualization of vector variables in the trajectories of objects.
It still provides inventions, games or simulations of physical systems, present in the set menus of the classroom. All those real world properties can be switched on and off, whenever necessary.
The software was developed to draw objects, which can be subjected to physical properties, and them simulated in a real environment such as gravity, air resistance, friction, elasticity, density, refractive index, forces, rotations, and so on. Algodoo presents a cartoon based environment, in which one can create scenarios using touch screen/mouse cursor, interacting with objects through clicks, drags, tilts and shakes. We can highlight the free simulation software Algodoo 2D (by Algoryx Simulation AB ). To avoid this situation, some companies have employed in their software accessibility protocols, to make the manipulation easier to any user. Various are the tools used to support the teaching/learning process, but they still face resistance from a many users, since they require training and specific knowledge of computational programming skills.
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