Abstract
The article discusses the scientific and methodological basis of use of the electronic textbooks and virtual laboratory works in the formation of an applied orientation in students. If you hold a physical experiment and frontal laboratory works using virtual models and electronic books via computer, then you can compensate the lack of equipment in the physics laboratory, and thus, to teach students to produce their own physical knowledge in physics experiment on virtual models; it is a real possibility to create the necessary applied orientation to students and raise the level of students in physics. First, the implementation of computer technology is performed in sciences, particularly in physics lessons. Formation of practical skills of students in physics can be effectively carried out if the educational process includes virtual versions of demonstration experiment. The virtual environment of the computer can quickly alter the experiment, which provides a significant variability of the results, which significantly enriches the practice of students performing logical operations analysis and the formulation of conclusions of the results of the experiment.