Play: Family Outreach
Play: Physics Toolbox in Family Outreach
Physics Toolbox Play
An app for outreach with children and families
Education is at the core of why we develop Physics Toolbox apps. Additionally, we recognize that many people balk at the word "physics," and that attitudes about science are often formed when people are quite young...
Useful for educational outreach in informal STEM learning for ages 8+ and for classroom introduction to sensors, physics, and STEM careers, this app is comprised of a series of data-verified challenges.
Get helpful guidance with running events using Physics Toolbox Play.
Color Detector in Suite/Pro
Stand-alone sensor now integrated into Suite and Pro
An upgraded version of our stand-alone Physics Toolbox Color Detector has now been added to Physics Toolbox Sensor Suite and Physics Toolbox Sensor Suite Pro. This detector uses the camera to analyze the area inside of a small rectangular box on the screen. Color values from each pixel are combined to give an average color, which appears as a similarly-colored bar below the camera image, as well as the common color name and its corresponding hexadecimal value.
With the Pro version of our app, users get the added feature of a button that allows the user to easily copy the hexadecimal value for the color to the device's clipboard for later retrieval.
Physics Toolbox in the News
We are always curious to learn about how Physics Toolbox is being employed in education and industry around the world. Here are a few articles using or citing the work of the Physics Toolbox team.
Learn how to use the Accelerometer to determine Young's modulus for a cylindrical bar in this Spanish-language article in the Brazilian Review of Physics Education.
Taking some inspiration from the recent publication of articles dealing with smartphone physics and fluids, learn how to use a smartphone camera to measure surface tension of liquids.
Italian high school physics teacher Luca Scalzullo recently took his students out to the parking lot measure the relationship between distance from a car horn and the intensity of sound observed.
This Hungarian-language doctoral thesis looks at the use of smartphones in environmental science teacher education through the capabilities of tools such as Physics Toolbox's GPS sensor.
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