A quote often attributed to Seymour Papert states that if a teacher from the 16th century would timetravel to the present, he or she would have no problem entering a school and teaching a class. Historical documents from that time show that he could not be more accurate. The Treviso Arithmetic, from 1478, teaches students how to do multiplication and division using ‘exactly’ the same paper-based algorithms we use today. Several descriptions of 16th century schools and their curricula look strikingly similar to today’s mathematics classes, such as a well-known school in Florence run by Master Francesco Ghaligai in 1519 which had a “...heavy emphasis on memorization and procedures” and a curriculum comprised of units on “multiplication, practice in the use of algorithms, division, fractions, and the rule of three” (Swetz & Smith, 1987).

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Digital Fabrication and Making' in Education: The Democratization of Invention

https://www.cns.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~shimoura/research/nuc_data/pdf/11.pdf

Energy levels of light nuclei A = 11-12

Chiral dynamics of the two /Λ(1405) states

It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.

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Computational Thinking 計算論的思考

In this work we present an overview of the undergraduate online Physics course that we have implemented in the Moodle platform. This course has been developed as an enhancement of the face-to-face courses. The aim of this course is to create an online learning community which helps both teachers and students to have a virtual space where we can share knowledge through different kinds of supervised activities, chats and forums. As we will show in this paper, the students' response to this initiative has been very good: the online Physics course helps them to reinforce their abilities and knowledge.

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The role of new technologies in the learning process: Moodle as a teaching tool in Physics

Partial table of contents: GENERALITIES. Computing Software Basics. Errors and Uncertainties in Computations. APPLICATIONS. Data Fitting. Deterministic Randomness. Monte Carlo Applications. Differentiation. Differential Equations and Oscillations. Anharmonic Oscillations. Unusual Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems. Differential Chaos in Phase Space. Matrix Computing and Subroutine Libraries. Bound States in Momentum Space. Computing Hardware Basics: Memory and CPU. High-Performance Computing: Profiling and Tuning. Object-Oriented Programming: Kinematics. Thermodynamic Simulations: The Ising Model. Fractals. PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Heat Flow. Waves on a String. NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Solitons, The KdeV Equation. Confined Electronic Wave Packets. Appendices. Glossary. References. Index.

Computational Physics: Problem Solving with Computers

We show that the ${D}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ meson will form narrow bound states with ${}^{208}\mathrm{Pb}.$ Mean-field potentials for the ${D}^{0},$ ${D}^{0},$and ${D}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ in ${}^{208}\mathrm{Pb}$ are calculated self-consistently using the quark-meson coupling model in the local density approximation. The meson-${}^{208}\mathrm{Pb}$ bound-state energies are then calculated by solving the Klein-Gordon equation with these potentials. The experimental confirmation and comparison with the ${D}^{0}$ and ${D}^{0}$ will provide distinctive information on the nature of the interaction between the charmed meson and matter.

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Charmed mesic nuclei: Bound D and D̄ states with 208 Pb

Pion-deutron and pion-nucleus scattering — a review

Computational physics provides a broader, more balanced, and more flexible education than a traditional physics major. Moreover, presenting physics within a scientific problem-solving paradigm is a more effective and efficient way to teach physics than the traditional approach

Rubin H. Landau

Papers

Computational Physics: Problem Solving with Computers

Charmed mesic nuclei: Bound D and D̄ states with 208 Pb

Pion-deutron and pion-nucleus scattering — a review

Computational Physics: A Better Model for Physics Education?

A theory of low energy pion-nucleus scattering