{"id":2141,"date":"2025-03-27T03:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/loft\/?page_id=2141"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:38:16","slug":"vlabs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/vlabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vlabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/Python_Powered_Vlabs-208x300-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2143 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/Python_Powered_Vlabs-208x300-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>An essential goal for physics and optical science instructors is to encourage students to find excitement in their academics. Such motivation relies on realistic hands-on lab opportunities where students interact with physics-based phenomena. When in-person labs are limited or unavailable, virtual simulation and modeling tools provide a great alternative in delivering interactive experiences.<\/p>\n<p>A virtual lab beginning with a perfectly aligned system misses a key teaching opportunity to show the student how an experiment is built.\u00a0<em>Failure-mode<\/em>\u00a0options introduce misalignment of the initial set-up to introduce realistic errors to an experiment. The\u00a0<em>failure-mode<\/em>\u00a0gives a more realistic sense to a virtual lab which will complement the classroom-based courses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/VLab-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2142\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/VLab-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/VLab-2.png 820w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/VLab-2-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/VLab-2-768x553.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physics and optical sciences virtual labs (Vlabs), including\u00a0<em>failure-mode<\/em>\u00a0options, are freely available and developed through a Python environment. All the lab scripts are open-source and accessible for any student or instructor through a standard editor (e.g., Microsoft Windows Notepad).<\/p>\n<p>Vlabs Python codes (example\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/poj85hfhc7iys0j\/VPL_RefractionB_En.zip?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vlabs Python code<\/a>\u00a0shown in the figure above) can be freely acquired by\u00a0emailing\u00a0us. To access the various Vlabs codes or join our open-source educational outreach program contact Prof. Sukmock Lee (smlee@inha.ac.kr ) or Prof. Daewook Kim (dkim@optics.arizona.edu).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Sukmock Lee, Charlotte Guthery, and Daewook Kim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential goal for physics and optical science instructors is to encourage students to find excitement in their academics. Such motivation relies on realistic hands-on lab opportunities where students interact with physics-based phenomena. When in-person labs are limited or unavailable, virtual simulation and modeling tools provide a great alternative in delivering interactive experiences. A virtual lab beginning with a perfectly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2141\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}