Abstract: Educational software using a computer and having a data storage system including a software module database management system and a user database management system. There is a quiz module database, maintained by the software module database management system, containing at least one quiz module, and a structured learning material editor module database, maintained by the software module database management system and containing at least one structured learning material editor modules. The software also has a structured learning material database, maintained by the user database management system, for storing at least one structured learning material data set created by a user. A user interface is provided for selecting system control functions, editing structured learning materials, presenting quizzes, receiving user answers to quizzes, and displaying quiz analysis results. A control system retrieves software modules from the software module database management system and activates them.

Abstract: Educational software using a computer and having a data storage system including a software module database management system and a user database management system. There is a quiz module database, maintained by the software module database management system, containing at least one quiz module, and a structured learning material editor module database, maintained by the software module database management system and containing at least one structured learning material editor modules. The software also has a structured learning material database, maintained by the user database management system, for storing at least one structured learning material data set created by a user. A user interface is provided for selecting system control functions, editing structured learning materials, presenting quizzes, receiving user answers to quizzes, and displaying quiz analysis results. A control system retrieves software modules from the software module database management system and activates them.

Abstract: An acoustic surface wave transducer characterized by a novel electrode coguration. A pair of electrode strips are positioned on the surface of a piezoelectric material, each of the strips having elongate fingers extending laterally towards one another. The fingers from the opposed electrode strips are aligned with one another, as opposed to the common interdigitated structure of the prior art. The fingers have a prescribed spacing from adjacent fingers as well as from opposed fingers. The prescribed configuration causes the electric field between corresponding fingers to peak at the points between the ends of the fingers which, in turn, causes high shear stresses to occur and be reinforced as the acoustic wave travels down the length of the material. The basic transducer generates a point source of acoustic waves.