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Smart physics with an oscillating beverage can

A digital learning-teaching environment is introduced in which
undergraduate students are challenged to connect the basic physical concepts
of oscillation, buoyancy and data analysis via an authentic experiment. The
damped oscillation of a cylindrical body swimming upright in water is
measured via the MEMS acceleration sensor of a wireless MCU SensorTag.
The data are recorded with the app phyphox on a smartphone or tablet. The
theoretical oscillation period and the experimentally determined periods
obtained via different data analysis roots are found to agree showing an
excellent theory-experiment interplay. The proposed experiment is suited for
the physics home lab e.g. under the current pandemic situation or for open
university courses as well as for physics lab courses.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:85077
Date02 May 2023
CreatorsKaps, Andreas, Stallmach, Frank
PublisherIOP Publishing
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relation1361-6552, 045010

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