Virtual Laboratory for Physics Teaching

Abstract

This paper presents the outcome of over 10 years of work of the team of specialists on creating a virtual laboratory for physics training for general secondary schools in Mongolia. The laboratory can serve as an experimental base for studying physical phenomena in teaching and learning Physics. In construction of models for physical processes and laws, programming tools such as object oriented Delphi, C++, Java, C# and OpenGL graphics library are used. Conducting laboratory investigations, students become able to perform numerical measurements and get computer estimations of physical quantities. By means of intensive and active discussions and debates around the facts and data, the students should interpret and deduce formulation of physical laws and regularities. This leads to discovering the fundamental laws of physics by students themselves.