Damped Oscillations with a Smart Cart
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Asif Shakur [1] ; Jeffrey Emmert [1]
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[1] Salisbury University
Salisbury University
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 57, Nº. 7, 2019, págs. 490-492
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The introduction of the Wireless Smart Cart by PASCO scientific in April 2016 has ushered in a paradigm shift in the design and implementation of low-cost undergraduate physics and engineering laboratory experiments. The use of smartphones in experimental physics is by now widely accepted and documented. The smart cart in combination with student-owned smartphones and free apps has opened up a new universe of low-cost experiments that have traditionally required cumbersome and expensive equipment. In this paper we demonstrate the simplicity, convenience, and cost saving achieved by replacing a plethora of traditional laboratory sensors, wires, air tracks, and other equipment clutter with the smart cart and the free SPARKvue app for smartphones by carrying out an experiment on damped oscillations
