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The Flashing Light Bulb: A Quantitative Introduction to the Theory of Alternating Current

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Abstract

In this book several previous chapters focused on mechanics experiments that can be analyzed using a mobile video motion analysis (Chaps. 3, 11, 13, 27 and 36) [1–5]. However, the use of this method is also possible in completely different areas, which is the focus of this contribution.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    “Netzfrequenz”, Wikipedia, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzfrequenz

  2. 2.

    https://ogy.de/iOSVivaVideo (iOS), https://ogy.de/VivaVideoAndroid (Android).

  3. 3.

    The video “flashing light bulb” starts at maximum brightness and then shows the bulb lighting up 47 more times; https://ogy.de/chap59-video1

  4. 4.

    The video “LED” shows a blinking LED recorded via Casio EX-ZR400 (1000 fps); https://ogy.de/chap59-video2

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    Patrik Vogt

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

    Stefan Küchemann & Jochen Kuhn

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Vogt, P., Küchemann, S., Kuhn, J. (2022). The Flashing Light Bulb: A Quantitative Introduction to the Theory of Alternating Current. In: Kuhn, J., Vogt, P. (eds) Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94044-7_59

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