{"id":434173,"date":"2017-07-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=b603fb6cfc4408bf217498ad0df87da0"},"modified":"2017-07-06T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:00:00","slug":"teaching-physics-using-microsoft-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=434173","title":{"rendered":"Teaching physics using Microsoft Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excel is both ubiquitous and easily understandable. Most people from every walk of life know how to<br \/>\nuse MS office and Excel spreadsheets. Students are also familiar with spreadsheets. Most students<br \/>\nknow how to use spreadsheets for data analysis. Besides basic use of Excel, some important aspects<br \/>\nof spreadsheets are highlighted in this article. MS Excel can be used to visualize effects of<br \/>\nvarious parameters in a physical system. It can be used as a simulating tool; simulation of wind<br \/>\ndata has been done through spreadsheets in this study. Examples of Lissajous figures and a damped<br \/>\nharmonic oscillator are presented in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel is both ubiquitous and easily understandable. Most people from every walk of life know how to<br \/>\nuse MS office and Excel spreadsheets. Students are also familiar with spreadsheets. Most students<br \/>\nknow how to use spreadsheets for data analysis. Besi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-434173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}