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A university course to introduce sophomore (second-year) physics university students to differential equations with the help of the world-wide-web and interactive multimedia technology is currently being designed and implemented at the Physics Department of the University of Crete. On-line differential equation solvers, interactive multimedia demonstrations, lecture notes and a set of worked examples on contemporary physics and real-life applications (chosen to reveal similarities between subfields of physics or between physics and other sciences,) and student term-projects on modern science developments, aim at improving the conceptual understanding and the problem-solving ability of the physics majors.
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Tsironis, G.P., Neofotistos, G. (1998). Using telematics to overcome educational constraints: teaching differential equations using the world-wide-web and multimedia technology. In: Verdejo, F., Davies, G. (eds) The Virtual Campus. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35352-4_27
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