Open Source Physics

Open Source Physics, or OSP, is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Davidson College, whose mission is to spread the use of open source code libraries that take care of a lot of the heavy lifting for physics: drawing and plotting, differential equation solvers, exporting to animated GIFs and movies, etc., tools, and compiled simulations for physics and other numerical simulations . The OSP collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. The code library is in the Java programming language and licensed with GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) licenses. The site now serves over 10,000 visitors per month. The Open Source Physics Project is an extension of the Physlet Project.

Sub-projects

They have four projects with this purpose.

Awards

In 2011, the project received an important award, the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education, or SPORE from Science magazine[1][2] In 2015, the project received the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education and Excellence Award Multimedia Physics Teaching and Learning Conference MPTL20

References

  1. Physorg, Science Magazine Honors Web Site, retrieved 2011-12-05.
  2. Ars Technica, Science Education Prize Goes to Open Source Physics, retrieved 2011-12-05.
Notes
  • M. Belloni, W. Christian, and D. Brown, "Open Source Physics Curricular Material for Quantum Mechanics: Dynamics and Measurement of Quantum Two-state Superpositions," Computing in Science and Engineering 9, 4, 24-31 (2007).
  • W. Christian, Open Source Physics: A User’s Guide with Examples, Addison-Wesley (2006).
  • W. Christian, M. Belloni, and D. Brown, "An Open Source XML Framework for Authoring Curricular Material," Computing in Science and Engineering, September/October (2006).

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