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During the last decade the development of modern digital media such as smartphones and tablet computers has enabled new experimental possibilities in STEM education. Besides these now nearly ubiquitous devices, the fields of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) also made huge progress [1] and reached education [2, 3]. In this chapter we introduce an AR experiment alongside the basic idea of this iPhysicsLabs-column [4] and following prior work [5–7]. In the experiment high school students use smartglasses and real-time measurement data to study Kirchhoff’s circuit laws in electrical DC circuits.
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Kapp, S. et al. (2022). Augmenting Kirchhoff’s Laws: Using Augmented Reality and Smartglasses to Enhance Conceptual Electrical Experiments for High School Students. In: Kuhn, J., Vogt, P. (eds) Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94044-7_57
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