A Practice of Physics Education Using Electronic Books for Differential and Integral Calculus, Mechanics and an LMS

We have developed tools to enhance the practice of physics education in differential and integral calculus and mechanics, using interactive electronic books to support graphical understanding and an LMS, for third year students in national colleges of maritime technology. Using the gallery function of electronic books, we teach a graphical understanding of the mechanics of a particle. For example, in graphical terms, the slope of a tangent line at any point on a distance-time graph gives the speed at that point in time. As a class exercise, the students took an online examination in the LMS, and could efficiently check their degree of understanding of general concepts of physics and fundamental calculations of physics quantities. From the results of a student questionnaire given after the exercise, about 58-59% of the students found the gallery function for graphical understanding of the electronic books to be helpful and about 65-69% of them found the online examinations in the LMS to be useful.