Acoustics Apps: Interactive simulations for digital teaching and learning of acoustics

This paper presents the Acoustics Apps, an e-learning platform that offers interactive and playful environment for teaching learning principles of acoustics vibration. The Apps address increasing demand digitized methods, which might be suitable home schooling or as a complement to physical experiments by adding simulation. apps combine experimenting, observing, exploring using state-of-the-art scientific methods numerical simulations. ability visualize control acoustic phenomena facilitates understanding relevant principles. are designed used intuitively can tailored suit existing knowledge user. As such, wide range users benefit from this aid. It has been developed allow barrier-free access modern educational tools, requiring only device with browser Internet access. necessary computing power is provided external server COMSOL ServerTM technology. freely available academic purposes at apps.vib.mw.tum.de.