CREATIVE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS FOR BASIC PHYSICS USING COMPUTER DATA COLLECTION AND EVALUATION EXEMPLIFIED ON THE INTELLIGENT SCHOOL EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM (ISES)

A new type of physics laboratory for non-major undergraduate students is presented, fully computerized as far as the following activities are concerned: instructions as interactive web pages, data collection, evaluation, modeling or simulation and report presentation. The major accent is on the examination of real world phenomena and their physical background. Throughout the laboratory the Intelligent School Experimental System (ISES - Charles University in Prague) is widely used. The results achieved are demonstrated on the measurements, on the example of the measurement of the geometrical dimensions of micro objects by physical optics diffraction, extended to the quantum physics Heisenberg principle of uncertainty, further, magnetic field mapping of the coils in the Helmholtz arrangement and, last, the change of state of the real gas.