CIP Contest Winners

Computers in Physics
Educational Software Contest

WINNERS OF FIFTH ANNUAL CONTEST

Prizes awarded in January 1995; software described in CIP 8:6, 1994, p. 672.

Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College, for:

WAVE EQUATION AND OTHER PDEs
Solves partial differential equations of fundamental importance in physics and explores the time evolution of their solutions.

Freeman Deutsch, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, for:

MOUSELAB
Enables interactive study of the relationship between a function and its derivatives--for example, the relationship between the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of an object.

Graham Oberem, University of Washington, for:

FREEBODY
Engages students in dialogs about free-body force diagrams so as to improve the students' ability to isolate an object and identify the external forces on it.

Glenn Snyder, Gettysburg College, for:

PROJECT CLEA
Simulates experiments in introductory astronomy.

Ronald Stoner, Bowling Green State University, for:

EMWAVE
Animates and displays three-dimensional views of the electric and magnetic fields in a propagating electromagnetic wave as it interacts with various materials and optical devices.

Daniel Styer, Oberlin College, for:

QUANTUM MECHANICAL TIME DEVELOPMENT and IDENTICAL PARTICLES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
Simulates the evolution of wave packets in one-dimensional potentials and noninteracting identical particles in an infinite square well.

Honorable Mentions

Robert Beichner, North Carolina State University, for: VIDEOGRAPH and VIDEOGRAB
Analyzes object motion frame by frame in QuickTime movies.
Darrel Conway, Computer Sciences Corporation, for: BELLBOX
Simulates Bell's inequality.
Randall S. Jones, Loyola College, for: THE MOTION GENERATOR
Displays solutions of classical dynamics problems.
Gordon Ramsey, Loyola University of Chicago, for: THE CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPE
Teaches terminology and operation of the oscilloscope.