ANIMATION OF PLANE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN VACUUM USING WINPLOT SOFTWARE

Israel Herôncio Rodrigues de Oliveira  Hadad; Marcelo Castanheira da Silva

doi:10.54038/ms.v1i1.4

Autores

Israel Herôncio Rodrigues de Oliveira Hadad Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza – CCBN, Universidade Federal do Acre – UFAC https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8462-9812
Marcelo Castanheira da Silva Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza – CCBN, Universidade Federal do Acre – UFAC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1324-6440

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54038/ms.v1i1.4

Palavras-chave:

Winplot. Simulation of the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Physics education. Animation of math functions.

Resumo

In this work, the Winplot software was used to animate plane electromagnetic waves in a vacuum. The target audience was a class of 18 undergraduates in Physics and was applied at the Federal University of Acre, campus Rio Branco, in Brazil. The activity was carried out in a computer lab and conducted through a script with detailed instructions. The results were satisfactory, where participants got more than 60.0% right of four of the six investigative questions. In evaluating the activity, 88.9% considered it a good method to visualize the propagation of electromagnetic waves and 77.0% classified the activity as excellent or good. The application of the activity allowed a dynamic view of the propagation of plane electromagnetic waves in a vacuum, which could contribute to the teaching of such content.

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