This page describes a book published by Prentice-Hall (Spain) on Easy Java Simulations.

The book contains a first part that includes a chapter with the pedagogical reasons to use simulations and Ejs in a Physics classroom, as well as a complete description of the tool.

The second part contains step-by-step examples of different Physics simulations created with Ejs. From the simple, to the far from trivial.

Finally, the appendices contain useful reference information on writing Java code, the most popular Java classes, and how to deal with error messages from the Java compiler.

The book has only appeared in Spanish, but we have translated the table of contents below.

 

Creación de Simulaciones Interactivas en Java

Aplicación a la Enseñanza de la Física

Francisco Esquembre

 

Table of contents

Preface

Foreword

Part I. Creation of Interactive Simulations in Java

  1. Computers and Physics Education

  2. A first contact

  3. Creating models

  4. Building a view

  5. Using the simulation

Part II. Simulations for Physics Education

  1. Parabolic throw and collisions

  2. Oscillations

  3. Accelerated motion

  4. Events

  5. Systems of particles

  6. Partial differential equations

  7. Self-organized systems

Part III. Appendices

  1. Programming algorithms in Java

  2. Some really useful Java classes

  3. Java error messages

Bibliography

Index