Quick update for iOS users
Quick update for iOS users: all Physics Zone simulations now run smoothly on iPhones, iPads, and Macs after fixing the full-screen toggle issue.
Author: Farid Minawi
Educational Technologist
-
-
Newton’s Tube Simulation
This simulation models Newton’s tube experiment, showing how air resistance affects falling objects. By removing air from the tube and flipping it, users can observe how a feather and a pebble fall differently in air but identically in a vacuum—demonstrating that gravity accelerates all objects equally when air resistance is removed.
-
Course: Crafting Effective Learning Assessments
I created this course and published it on my Moodle platform. Each module is comprised of SCORM package and a quiz, with an unofficial completion certificate as a template that can be costumed to the specifications of your organization. The course is tracked, and you must successfully complete each chapter to unlock the next one. The course is fully learner-centered.
-
Interference of Waves Simulation
This interactive wave interference simulation demonstrates the fundamental principles of wave superposition using two sources. Users can adjust key parameters including wavelength, amplitude, phase difference, and source separation to observe how waves interact and produce complex interference patterns. The simulation features a real-time probe tool that displays individual wave amplitudes and their resultant superposition, showing constructive and destructive interference at different points in the field. The visual representation includes radiating wave fronts from both sources, with characteristic alternating bands of high and low amplitude clearly visible throughout the interference pattern.
-
Education before technology
Educational technology is more about strategically leveraging technology to enhance, transform, and even redefine teaching and learning than just merging education with technology. You have to be a strong educator equipped with learning theories, educational methodologies, and statistical analysis in the first place to be a successful educational technologist.
-
Don’t do it, train your own AI to do it!
If this future becomes reality, there will be a massive wave of job displacement as AI takes over across various industries and job markets. But a wide horizon of opportunities will rise. Instead of a position of making decisions in a company, there will be a position of training the AI to make that decision and to maintain its logic.
As a bizarre example, companies might not need IT (Information Technology) officers anymore! Instead, they might employ AIT (Artificial Intelligence Technology) officers, whose main responsibility is training and maintaining the company’s AI model to solve the company’s technical issues! -
DeepSeek AI: The tool I wished I had while building my photoelectric effect simulation
Looking back, I wish I had access to tools like DeepSeek. During my development process. In my recent experimenting with this open-source AI model, I’ve found it provides structured, research-paper-like responses with meaningful technical information from the first interaction. This would have significantly streamlined my research phase. Definitely, DeepSeek wouldn’t have appeared if ChatGPT hadn’t existed in the first place. But the super abilities that DeepSeek came with as it came into existence, plus being open-source, makes it super competent to the existing AI tools.
-
When my Virtual Oscilloscope was mistaken for just a picture!
This story always reminds me how much work we still have to do in Lebanon to bridge the gap in technological literacy among educators!
-
Simplicity is power
In creating interactive educational tools, simplicity is power. A minimalist design doesn’t just look clean; it helps learners focus on what truly matters. Instead of overwhelming the user with unnecessary details, focus on providing a clear, interactive interface that mirrors the real-world experience.
-
How a 1-minute simulation changed my career path!
That moment stuck with me. It showed me how powerful simulations can be in breaking down complex ideas. It’s the reason I decided to learn how to develop science simulations to make learning easier for others.
Sometimes, all it takes is one moment to change your path!
