The use of simulation and computational environments in physics education

In the presented work we study usage of interactive simulations (a modern approach to e-learning) in science education from the programmer's point of view. A concept of interactive simulation is presented in the beginning of the presented work, followed by guidelines for choosing suitable authoring environment for development of large number of such simulations. Next we introduce four existing development tools and we verify their practical usability by implementing suitable physics test problem - damped harmonic oscilator. This implementation is also described. In the end of the work we introduce a new kind of educational simulation allowing experimental data to be obtained from the simulation which gets simulation closer to real experiment. This approach shows a new course of e-learning. This simulation together with a library consisting of more than 100 reusable graphical objects is created in the Adobe Flash CS3 environment