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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2016 Meeting
Section: Physics Education
Title:
An educational software environment for students in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Authors:
Dan CIUBOTARIU(1), Dragos NICHITA(1), Teodora PETRUSE(1), Mihai NICULESCU(2)
Affiliation:
1)Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania
2)Institute of Space Science, Romania
E-mail
mihai@spacescience.ro
Keywords:
education, nuclear, simulation, monte carlo, computational physics
Abstract:
Today's science is done modeling and simulating the experiment or the interested physics phenomena on computers first. These simulations give impressive results and accuracy, showing us what the experimental results will actually look like.
We believe that a similar approach, in which the studied phenomena is simplified down to its essential core and then modeled on a computer, can be very useful in education. Alongside this, presenting also a graphical representation of the phenomena to the students, they gain a better intuitive understanding of the science that is hidden at the first glance in the usual representation of data - the abstracted plots. In this paper, we present EduKit a software environment based on ROOT framework intended for helping the students learn about the interested nuclear phenomena in a dynamical and graphical interaction. The main goal of EduKit is to setup the required environment for developers in order to create/run a complete educational environment. To be more precise, it means to create and run EduKit Lessons, demonstration experiments, show interested Plots or show the required documentation/or lesson walk-through. We prepared a few lessons (namely: The Decay Law, Alpha Decay, Beta Decay & Nuclear Fission) for demonstration purposely, but we believe any other additional lessons can be created even for other educational fields that are not related to particle or nuclear physics.
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