Archimedes Law Simulation For Physics Learning Media
D.D. Bhakti(1.1*), A. Ismail(1.2) , I. Nasrulloh(1.3), P. Sidiq(2) , Y. Nugraha(3)
(1.1*) Department of information system, Institut Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Pahlawan No.32, Garut 44151, Indonesia
(1.2) Department of physics education, Institut Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Pahlawan No.32, Garut 44151, Indonesia
(1.3) Department of information technology education, Institut Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Pahlawan No.32, Garut 44151, Indonesia
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(2) Department of information system, Institut Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Pahlawan No.32, Garut 44151, Indonesia
(3) Department of information system, Institut Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Pahlawan No.32, Garut 44151, Indonesia
Abstract
Students find physics difficult, because they have to contend with different representations such as experiments, formulas and calculations, graphs, and conceptual explanation at the same time (angell, Guttersrud, Henriksen, and Isnes : 2004). As far as we know that physics experiments wich conducted in well-equipped laboratories, improve students science process skills (Hirca:2012). It is hard to imagine learning to do science, or learning about science, without doing laboratory or fieldwork (Trumper:2003). But many schools in various part of the world have very poor or no laboratories, so the teachers have to use their own equipment and replace the students experimental work with simple demonstration experiments (Ozvoldova, Spilakova, Tkac). The purpose of this study was to create physics learning media for archimedes law using simulation to cover the lack of the availability of laboratories and physics paracticum tools. CSUQ is used to test usability of the simulation.
Keywords: simulation, physics learning media, CSUQ.
Topic: Computer Science