University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group

The M.U.P.P.E.T. Utilities -- Programming tools for solving physics problems

The M.U.P.P.E.T. Utilities are a set of software tools in Pascal that make it simple for both students and faculty to learn to solve physics problems using procedural programming. The M.U.P.P.E.T. Utilities are now available from Physics Academic Software. The Utilities include tools for graphing, building data input screens and menus, parsing, and simple animation. The two disks contain the utilities and 32 sample programs, both in executable and code form. The product includes a 280 page manual that provides an introduction to DOS, Pascal, and Turbo Pascal, as well as a description of the utilities for graphing. The Maryland University Project in Physics and Educational Technology (M.U.P.P.E.T.) was begun in 1983 by a group of physicists at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. M.U.P.P.E.T. and its descendent projects CUPLE and CUPS have received nearly $3 Million in funding from the Federal Government (FIPSE, NSF), industry (IBM, Apple), and foundations (Annenberg/CPB). Software produced by these projects have won numerous software awards.

For more information about The M.U.P.P.E.T. Utilities click on one of the entries below:

• The M.U.P.P.E.T. Utilities: Motivation and Context
• Table of Contents
• List of Sample Programs: (Some executables can be downloaded).
• Some published papers about M.U.P.P.E.T. and M.U.P.P.E.T. programs: (Some are available to be read online).
• Some M.U.P.P.E.T. tutorials: One hour group learning sessions available using M.U.P.P.E.T. programs.

Some courses using M.U.P.P.E.T. materials developed at the University of Sydney:

• Computational Physics 3: A Computational Science course to teach computational techniques in Physics via modern Fourier Transform techniques and their applications.


• Computational Quantum Mechanics: A beginning course in quantum mechanics.

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Turbo Pascal is a registered trademark of Borland International, Scotts Valley, CA.

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Some Links:

• UMd HomePage
  
• UMd of Physics HomePage
  
• UMd Computers in Physics Education HomePage
  
• Physics Academic Software HomePage
  

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The M.U.P.P.E.T. Utilities is available from Physics Academic Software (phone 1-800-955-TASL for information or orders).

Edward F. Redish
Jack M. Wilson
Ian D. Johnston

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Maintained by University of Maryland PERG
Comments and questions may be directed to E. F. Redish
Last modified May 1995