Visual Electro Magnetics (Vem): A Visualization Tool To Enhance Learning In Undergraduate Electromagnetics (original) (raw)
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emiller@esa.lanl.gov 0.0 ABSTRACT Computer-based visualization has grown remarkably in capability since the first pen and carriage plotters made an appearance in the early 1960s. Scientific visualization has come to be an accepted and expected accompaniment for analysis, measurement and computation, and has even made possible new fields of research. Indeed, such topics as fractals and chaos theory could hardly have been developed without the possibility of displaying visual images of what their abstract mathematical descriptions actually represent. Few other physics and engineering disciplines share with electromagnetics (EM) the combination of a complex mathematical foundation that describes physical phenomena that are for the most part nonvisible. Both of these aspects of EM, its complex mathematics and physical non visibility, make computer-based visualization an especially powerful and useful tool for a variety of applications.