Preserving Heritage w/Smartphones
Preserving Cultural Heritage with Smartphones
Smartphones Used in Chiapas, Mexico to measure the effectiveness of reinforcements in adobe homes.
Smartphones are powerful tools that have been increasingly used in earthquake and vibration studies. Physics Toolbox was recently used in a research project among researchers from the Autonomous Universities of Chiapas and Guerrero to learn how to better preserve tradition adobe housing. Learn more about this work in the article below.
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Where is your accelerometer? A simple solution...
We've previously shared how you can use a turntable and trigonometry to locate your phone's accelerometer. This article greatly simplifies this task by using pure geometry and acceleration vectors.
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A collaborative team from Spain and Uruguay explore gyroscope data output when the smartphone is spun as a yo-yo!
This article from Philippine educators explore how to use the smartphone magnetometer to precisely measure spring oscillations.
Our colleagues in Sweden elaborate on how smartphone accelerometers can be used to help students relate physical sensation with motion changes on a free-fall amusement park ride.
If you haven't yet seen the classic kinetic friction and coefficient of friction on an inclined plane experiment, see how you can do this in this article using your phone.
Authors in this article present a simple setup with an LED, power source, and a smartphone light meter. Using the assumption that light intensity is linearly proportional to voltage, Planck's constant can be determined.
Quantify the difference in material resonance by observing the changing intensity of noise produced by a speaker that is placed on various surfaces.
Teach about the moment of inertia and the parallel axis theorem with a rotational pendulum attached to a smartphone.
Physics Toolbox Around the Web
The Physics and Engineering Department of the Universidad de la República in Uruguay celebrated day of women in tech with a smartphone physics program for girls and adolescents!
Physics Toolbox has been used in India in complement with Kinect to develop assistive technologies for rehabilitation following stroke.
How can smartphones be useful in the science classroom? Listen to this interview (in Spanish) from Arturo Martí.
Your smartphone's GPS can be great for outdoor navigation, but there are still major hurdles for indoor navigation. Check out this article using WiFi + MEMS technology for tracking indoor motion.
Physics Toolbox used to correct for orientation in LiFi-based navigation systems.
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