They have four projects with this purpose. •
OSP libraries: Java code libraries for numerical simulations. The OSP code library was created to meet the need by the broader science education community for a synthesis of curriculum development, computational physics, computer science, and physics education that will be useful for scientists and students wishing to write their own simulations and develop their own curricular material. OSP code library is described in the '''OSP User's Guide
by Wolfgang Christian in An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods''' by Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, and Wolfgang Christian. •
Easy Java Simulations (EJS) (New name: Easy JavaScript Simulations = EJSS): A free and open source computer-based modeling environment used to generate automatically Java and JavaScript code. Easy JavaScript Simulations is an authoring and modeling tool that allows users to create Java or JavaScript programs with minimal programming. EjsS creates programs that other people can easily inspect or modify. •
Tracker: An
open-source software video analysis and modeling tool designed for use in
physics education and distributed under the
GNU General Public License. In the context of physics education,
video analysis means tracking the motions of objects in videos to obtain their 2-D position-time data and associated physical quantities such as velocity, acceleration, momentum and energy. Computerized video analysis has been used widely in physics education since the 1990s. By contrast,
video modeling involves defining a
theoretical model and drawing it as an
animation directly on a video and was introduced only in 2009. Tracker has a built-in
dynamic model builder to define particles that move according to Newton's laws. External models built with
spreadsheets,
Easy Java Simulations or other modeling program can also be used. Tracker also has a
line profile tool for measuring
light spectra and other optical phenomena. Tracker 1.0 was distributed on disc at the 2003 Summer Meeting of the
American Association of Physics Teachers. The current version, 6.0, was released in 2021. •
OSP Curricular Development: A set of programs, packages, and worksheets for the teaching of advanced physics topics. Many instructors do not teach (or do research in) computational physics. For these instructors they have made the various physical models available in an easily accessible, modifiable, and distributable form for teaching of physics. For convenience, OSP programs are almost always packaged in Java archive (jar) files. These jar files contain compiled code and resources such curricular materials, images, and data files. == Awards ==