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Due to their prevalence and convenience, smartphones and tablets have been increasingly useful as tools to carry out new experiments in STEM education, including high school and university physics such as mechanics, acoustics, and optics (e.g. Chaps. 6, 24, 29 and 44) [1–8]. In this chapter we present a simple experiment with water and smartphones/tablets. We demonstrate how smartphones and tablets can be used for learning and verifying the lens equation and lensmaker’s equation to help students understand concepts in ray optics.
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This work was supported by the University of Arkansas; the iPad used in this work was provided by the Honors College at the University of Arkansas. We thank Angeli X. Wang, who observed the lens effects of water droplets during one of her Water Play Days, for inspiring and initiating this project.
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Freeland, J., Krishnamurthi, V.R., Wang, Y. (2022). Learning the Lens Equation Using Water and Smartphones/Tablets. In: Kuhn, J., Vogt, P. (eds) Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94044-7_65
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