See the Home School Kit for a full description of the course and other related items.
This CD is designed to be used with the high school physics textbook, Exploring Creation With Physics, Second Edition. It contains many multimedia features that cannot be included in a print textbook. They include:
Videos of experiments that the student could not do at home:
In this CD, you will find several videos of interesting experiments that require equipment which cannot be used in the home. These experiments illustrate important concepts in the course.
Animations of example problems in the course:
Many of the example problems are explained by Dr. Wile using an animated whiteboard. This is especially useful for auditory learners.
Pronunciation of the words with which the student is unfamiliar:
The technical words that the student has probably never heard before are pronounced on this CD.
System Requirements:
This CD is fully tested and technical support is available for the following operating systems: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0 (SP3 or higher), 2000 Professional, XP Home Edition, XP Professional.
Minimum System Requirements:
- A 486 with 66 MHz or higher processor (Pentium recommended)
- RAM: 16MB Memory (Windows 95)
32 MB memory (Windows NT)
64MB memory (Windows 2000)
- 195MB free disk space
- Mouse
- Sound Card
- Video and sound compression (part of your Windows installation)
- CD-ROM drive
Although technical support is not provided for Macintosh and Linux operating systems, the course can be run on Mac OSX and higher, Virtual PC 5.0 and higher, and Linux running KDS or Gnome.
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