Virtual Laboratories in Physical Sciences : A Review

Abstract

Integrating virtual laboratories as training platforms to complement teaching-learning processes in undergraduate and post-graduate courses becomes a necessity during this withheld face-to-face teaching context. The present article tries to introduce some useful websites that host physics experiments virtually. Some of them are based on the undergraduate and post-graduate curriculum framed by UGC and provide a simulation-based user interface that gives the student a feeling of doing experiments in the real physical laboratory. Some others give demonstrations and interactions of experiments that can be used by the teachers during their theory classes as well as lab demonstrations. Virtual labs give the students the freedom to access any experiment at any time from anywhere. Even though these virtual labs are not meant to replace the real physical laboratory, they are very useful for the teacher-student community to enhance their knowledge about the subject.