ENERGY IN ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS - A COMPUTER-ASSISTED APPROACH

This paper describes ideas on how an electronic spreadsheet can be a p owerful tool in teaching and learning about electrical circuits. We wi ll stress three main features: a spreadsheet as a multi-approach high level tool for interactive modeling and simulating; the role that it c an play in curricular development, making it possible to study some to pics that would otherwise not be accessible to students because they w ould require a mathematical background too high for them; and the use of spreadsheets in the study of two particular energy relationships th at can be rich in providing insight about important physical propertie s and technical aspects.