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Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics

Edited Volume Featuring more than 70 Examples from 10 Years The Physics Teacher-column iPhysicsLabs

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Editors:
  1. Jochen Kuhn

    1. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Faculty of Physics, Chair of Physics Education, Munich, Germany

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  2. Patrik Vogt

    1. Institute of Teacher Training (ILF) Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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  • Features more than 70 physics experiments performed with smartphones or tablets
  • Celebrates the 10th anniversary of iPhysicsLabs from The Physics Teacher
  • Aimed at physics lecturers, trainee teachers and teachers

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Table of contents (71 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Smartphones and Tablet PCs: Excellent Digital Swiss Pocket Knives for Physics Education

      • Jochen Kuhn, Patrik Vogt
      Pages 3-10

  3. Kinematics and Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Determining Ball Velocities with Smartphones

      • Patrik Vogt, Jochen Kuhn, Denis Neuschwander
      Pages 13-16

    3. An Experiment of Relative Velocity in a Train Using a Smartphone

      • Aan Priyanto, Yusmantoro, Mahardika Prasetya Aji
      Pages 17-21

    4. LED Gates for Measuring Kinematic Parameters Using the Ambient Light Sensor of a Smartphone

      • Witchayaporn Namchanthra, Chokchai Puttharugsa
      Pages 23-27

    5. Locating a Smartphone’s Accelerometer

      • Sidney Mau, Francesco Insulla, Elliot E. Pickens, Zihao Ding, Scott C. Dudley
      Pages 29-32

    6. Analyzing Free Fall with a Smartphone Acceleration Sensor

      • Patrik Vogt, Jochen Kuhn
      Pages 33-37

    7. Going Nuts: Measuring Free-Fall Acceleration by Analyzing the Sound of Falling Metal Pieces

      • Florian Theilmann
      Pages 39-42

    8. The Atwood Machine Revisited Using Smartphones

      • Martín Monteiro, Cecilia Stari, Cecilia Cabeza, Arturo C. Marti
      Pages 43-48

    9. Study of a Variable Mass Atwood’s Machine Using a Smartphone

      • Dany López, Isidora Caprile, Fernando Corvacho, Orfa Reyes
      Pages 49-54

  4. Momentum and Collision

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Analyzing Collision Processes with the Smartphone Acceleration Sensor

      • Patrik Vogt, Jochen Kuhn
      Pages 57-62

    3. The Dynamics of the Magnetic Linear Accelerator Examined by Video Motion Analysis

      • Sebastian Becker-Genschow, Michael Thees, Jochen Kuhn
      Pages 63-67

    4. Acoustic Measurements of Bouncing Balls and the Determination of Gravitational Acceleration

      • Oliver Schwarz, Patrik Vogt, Jochen Kuhn
      Pages 69-72

    5. Studying 3D Collisions with Smartphones

      • Vanda Pereira, Pablo Martín-Ramos, Pedro Pereira da Silva, Manuela Ramos Silva
      Pages 73-77

  5. Rotation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Measuring Average Angular Velocity with a Smartphone Magnetic Field Sensor

      • Unofre Pili, Renante Violanda
      Pages 81-86

    3. Visualizing Acceleration with AccelVisu2

      • Thomas Wilhelm, Jan-Philipp Burde, Stephan Lück
      Pages 87-93
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About this book

This book presents more than 70 physics experiments from iPhysicsLabs-column of the Journal The Physics Teacher. The articles are aimed at physics lecturers, trainee teachers and teachers who want to take their classes to the next level using digital devices. The experiments can easily be performed and analyzed using smartphones or tablets. The topics span from mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, astrophysics and astronomy to acoustics, electrodynamics and electronics.

Authors worldwide have contributed to this series of articles. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of iPhysicsLabs, Jochen Kuhn and Patrik Vogt have collected more than 70 most popular and interesting articles for this book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Faculty of Physics, Chair of Physics Education, Munich, Germany

    Jochen Kuhn

  • Institute of Teacher Training (ILF) Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Patrik Vogt

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Jochen Kuhn is a university professor and head of the Physics Education Research Group at the TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research focuses on learning with multiple representations in multimedia learning environments in physics and process-based analysis methods - such as eye-tracking analyses in learning and problem solving.

Dr. Patrik Vogt studied physics and mathematics on a teaching degree at the University of Koblenz-Landau and was a research assistant and secondary school teacher at various schools and universities in Germany until 2019. Since 2019 he is head of the department "Media Education Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Music, Philosophy" at the ILF in Mainz, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics

  • Book Subtitle: Edited Volume Featuring more than 70 Examples from 10 Years The Physics Teacher-column iPhysicsLabs

  • Editors: Jochen Kuhn, Patrik Vogt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94044-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94043-0Published: 29 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94044-7Published: 28 September 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 428

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 201 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Science Education, Environmental Economics, Teaching and Teacher Education, Computers and Education, Education, general

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