Mobile Devices and Sensors for Physics Teaching

Abstract

This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on teaching experimental physics using sensors in tablets, smartphones, and some specialized devices. After a general discussion of the hardware (sensors) and the software (apps), we present resources for experiments using mobile-device sensors in many areas of physics education: mechanics, oscillations and waves, optics, electromagnetism, matter, modern physics, and astronomy.

authors' version, 63 pages

References in corpus (6)

• Using smartphone pressure sensors to measure vertical velocities of elevators, stairways, and drones
• The mobile phone as a free-rotation laboratory
• Lessons from Transforming Second-Year Honors Physics Lab
• Demonstrations of magnetic phenomena: Measuring the air permeablity using tablets
• On the determination of accelerometer positions within host devices
• Enhance your smartphone with a Bluetooth Arduino nano board

Cited by in corpus (8)

• Physics lab courses under digital transformation: A tri-national survey among university lab instructors about the role of new digital technologies and learning objectives
• A home-lab experiment: resonance and sound speed using telescopic vacuum cleaner pipes
• Smartphone-Based Undergraduate Physics Labs: A Comprehensive Review of Innovation, Accessibility, and Pedagogical Impact
• Recitation tasks revamped? Students' perceptions of smartphone-based experimental and programming tasks in introductory mechanics
• Investigating the Magnetic Field outside small Accelerator Magnet Analogs via Experiment, Simulation, and Theory
• A Rotation-Compensated Smartphone Accelerometer Application for Undergraduate Mechanics Experiments
• Roller coaster dynamics -- from point particles to a continuum model using Lagrange density
• Using tablets and smartphones as experimental tools in the physics classroom: effects on learning and motivation