Simulations.

• Not a substitution for real laboratory work!
• Allows visualization of processes that cannot normally be seen (e.g. magnetic and electric fields).
• Allows visualization of process that are too fast to follow in real time.
• Allows manipulation of processes which might be dangerous or hard to experiment with (waves).
• Allows manipulation and visualization of complex situations which would be difficult to structure in a laboratory exercise (e.g. quantum energy levels).
  

Examples:

• Graphing utilities.
• Motion Graph Simulations.
• Thermodynamics Simulations.
• Electrostatic Simulations.
• Magnetic Simulations.
• Wave Simulations.
• Quantum Simulations.

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