Article,
Deployment of physics simulation apps using Easy JavaScript Simulations
(Aug 2, 2017)
DOI: 10.1109/educon.2017.7942985
Abstract
Physics simulations are widely used to improve the learning process in
science and engineering education. Deployment of a computational physics
simulation/model is extremely complex given the fact that both knowledge and
skills for the science equations and the computational and programming aspects
are required for a fully functional simulation, typically requiring a science
educator and computer scientists/developer to work together. However, when
using Easy JavaScript Simulation (EjsS) modeling toolkit, the instructor can be
both the science educator and computer programmer, only needing to define the
simulation variables, model and view, and the modeling toolkit can generate the
computer codes for the physics simulation. Moreover, the programming aspects
can become even more complex if simulations require being optimized for both
Android and iOS mobile devices. The current version of EjsS provides
instructors with an authoring tool that includes facilities for the creation of
such JavaScript simulations as mobile apps, thus simplifying the purely
programming aspects. This paper presents a new and novel EjsS functionality to
generate physics simulation apps for iOS and Android. The generation process is
based on the integration of the Ionic/Cordova and AngularJS technologies into
EjsS. Finally, we present several working examples based on the works of Open
Source Physics at Singapore.
