VIRTUAL LABORATORIES AS STRATEGY FOR TEACHING IMPROVEMENT IN MATH SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING IN BOLIVIA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14710/ijee.2.1.52-62
Abstract
The vertiginous technological advancement has made necessary the use of computer
software that contributes to the improvement of teaching in math sciences and engineering.
It is in this context that the last five years the strategy presented in this article has been disseminated
in the main universities of Bolivia, a country where the schools have not yet been able
to offer basic disciplines such as calculus, matrix algebra, physics and/or differential equations
to solve problems considering applicative aspects. To establish this connection, it is necessary
to deduce differential equations associated with practical problems, solve these equations
with different numerical algorithms, and establish the concept of simulation to later introduce
languages like Python/VPython free of license to elaborate Virtual Laboratories that allow obtaining
the solutions in two and three dimensions. The classical problems addressed for this
purpose are the satellite of two degrees of freedom and the inverted pendulum.
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