Engineering World
E-ISSN: 2692-5079 An Open Access, Peer Reviewed Journal of Selected Publications in Engineering and Applied Sciences
Volume 3, 2021
Teaching Electrical Circuits Through the Virtual Lab
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Abstract: Virtual laboratory technology allows experiments to be carried out under conditions that in some cases cannot be found in the laboratory, as well as access to the use of interaction with laboratory elements in an environment generated by computers. This type of laboratory has allowed the simulation of experiments using devices such as the computer, to increase freedom in carrying out the practices, being able to execute them as many times as desired, at a time according to the student’s time availability, without requiring materials or elements. real and without putting the person carrying out the experimentation at risk. The development of a computational tool that supports the apprehension of knowledge in the area of DC electric circuits is presented, the motivation to carry it out was that this topic is taught in a large part of engineering and the existing applications do not emphasize the basic topics, in addition of the scarce supply of free computer programs. The laboratory designed and implemented is made up of six options, four educational and two required in the application; the educational options allow to carry out tests of basic knowledge, review the theoretical foundations of the subject, execute numerical exercises and carry out the assembly of circuits. The application options are for starting and exiting the application. The acceptance of this proposal by the students was high, showing interest in its use, most of the respondents consider it attractive to reinforce the theme
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Pages: 81-91