Teaching physics online through spreadsheets in a pandemic situation
Majid Iqbal, Fayzan Ahmed, Arshad Iqbal, Zaheer Uddin · Physics Education · 2020
Abstract Teaching physics with simulations is an interactive way of teaching physics to students. In recent years, many scientists have used spreadsheets for simulating topics in physics and other fields. Excel is a piece of user-friendly spreadsheet software. In this lockdown situation, spreadsheets are good tools to teach physics experiments online through simulation. In this paper, we present two examples which are simulated on an Excel spreadsheet. The examples include simulations of image formations by spherical mirrors with a ray diagram and a demonstration of Malus’ law.