Lectures on Computer Assisted Modelling in Physics

Abstract. Our experience on teaching Physics at the 1st course of the Physics career at Murcia University, using computers to build simulations, is presented. This is carried out in a 60 hours practical Computer Laboratory course, in parallel with the General Physics course, both along a full 1st academic year in the Physics career. In the Computer Laboratory our students develop a systematic series of physics models covering different topics dealt with in the General Physics course. At the same time, the basics of building models with a computer is introduced along with the necessary numerical techniques involved. In this communication we shall present the program of this Computer Laboratory course together with some of the works done by our student