Smartphones on the air track. Examples and difficulties

Manuel Ángel González Delgado; Alfonso Gómez; Miguel Ángel González Rebollo

doi:10.4279/pip.100005

Authors

Manuel Ángel González Delgado Department of Applied Physics University of Valladolid 47011 Valladolid Spain
Alfonso Gómez Department of Applied Physics University of Valladolid 47011 Valladolid Spain
Miguel Ángel González Rebollo Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Cristalografía y Mineralogía Universidad de Valladolid 47011 Valladolid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4279/pip.100005

Keywords:

physics teaching, smartphone, kinematics, dynamics, sensors, accelerometer

Abstract

In this paper we describe a classical experiment with an air track in which smartphones are used as experimental devices to obtain physical data. The proposed experiment allows users to easily observe and measure relationships between physical magnitudes, conservation of momentum in collisions and friction effects on movement by utilizing the users' own mobile devices.

Received: 20 September 2017, Accepted: 4 May 2018; Edited by: A. Martí, M. Monteiro; Reviewed by: J-L Richter, Lycee Polyvalent J-B Schwilgue, France; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4279/PIP.100005

Cite as: M Á González, A Gómez, M Á González, Papers in Physics 10, 100005 (2018)

This paper, by M Á González, A Gómez, M Á González, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.