COMPUTER-AIDED TEACHING OF DYNAMIC SYSTEM BEHAVIOR,
Abstract
A Dynamic Systems Laboratory based on a time-shared digital computer is described. The laboratory simulates the time domain behavior of linear, lumped-parameter passive and active dynamic systems. The response variables, including powers and energies, are available in tabular and graph from, and rapid access data are generated and displayed by an analog computer under digital control. Problems are specified in a circuit-like notation called bond graphs. The Dynamic Systems Laboratory was used as the basis of an open-loop teaching system. An experiment is discussed in which four subjects were provided with a guidebook and access to the laboratory. Generalizations about the behavior of linear first- and second-order systems were developed by the subjects, based largely on experimentally obtained data. The efficiency of the teaching process was found to depend, in large part, on the student's ability to monitor himself. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0640681
Entities
People
- Ronald C. Rosenberg
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology