Wanting to Know: Interactive Video Providing the Context for Microcomputer-Based Laboratories

Human beings seem to be naturally curious about the world around them. They seem to want to understand the world and to feel at home in the universe. Our most effective physics courses are those that engage this intrinsic interest of human beings in the world around them. Interactive video can be used to bring this world into our physics classrooms and provide a context for microcomputer-based laboratories.