The Use of Microsoft Excel to Illustrate Wave Motion and Fraunhofer Diffraction in First Year Physics Courses

In this paper we present an Excel package that can be used to demonstrate physical phenomena in which variables may be automatically adjusted in real-time. This is accomplished by interrogating the system clock through the use of an appropriate macro, and using the clock reading to update the releva...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Garry Robinson, Zlatko Jovanoski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bond University
Series:Spreadsheets in Education
Online Access:http://sie.scholasticahq.com/article/4570-the-use-of-microsoft-excel-to-illustrate-wave-motion-and-fraunhofer-diffraction-in-first-year-physics-courses.pdf