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Physlets are small, versatile building blocks that can be controlled by JavaScripts.
Individual Physlets can intercommunicate; for example, the Animator4 physlet can
display motion as the DataGraph4 physlet plots it. The details of how this
occurs are controlled by your scripts, and thus may be completely customized
according to your pedagogical goals.
More importantly, Phylets allow you to go beyond the typical Java simulation
by creating applications that require active participation from the
student. Students can be asked to analyze motion using parameters that
must be inferred from "measurements" taken from the computer
screen.
The authors have recently published a
book
that provides a wealth of tutorial and pedagogical information.
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