Building Embodied Intuition with Smartphones
Building Embodied Intuition with Smartphones
Building Embodied Intuition for Graphs with Smartphones
A core part of our mission at Physics Toolbox is to ensure that math and science is accessible to all students everywhere. While our focus has usually been on the physics classroom, our math-focused article in Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12 was just published.
Using our LiDAR Motion Visualizer, our team describes a study we carried out with middle school students to build an understanding of motion graphs.
Engineering Applications
Effects on Underwater Life
Previous articles have explored the role of strong magnetic fields, created by undersea cables, on ocean life. This paper presents a new physical setup, validated with Physics Toolbox's magnetometer, that more accurately models the generated magnetic fields.
Where Is that Bird?
Research shows that sound (especially music) significantly influences mood and behavior. A small research study in Norway observed the changes in perception and behavior of people who heard birdsong in office spaces, relative to ambient sound levels measured with Physics Toolbox.
Your Smartphone Has a Metal Detector
Explore this blog by Brady Snyder about the smartphone magnetic field detector, as well as his review of Physics Toolbox. (For another look at his writing, take a look at "4 Hidden Sensors in Your Android Phone You're Probably not Using."
Smartphone Sensor Alerts for Identifying Large Vehicles on Narrow Roads
Drivers must be exceptionally aware while driving on narrow roads. This study uses smartphone data sets to determine the size of vehicles on a road, potentially supporting a network that can alert drivers to the types of cars around them.
Surface-Guided Radiotherapy Under Varying Light Conditions
To ensure accurate position of radiotherapy, some systems use mapping of patient's skin. This medical paper carried out quality assurance for a new model to supporting mapping, using Physics Toolbox to test lighting conditions.
More Popular Topics of Study with Smartphone Physics
Biomechanics
Human Activity Recognition Based on Data from Wearable Sensors (Croatian-language)
A Data-Driven Approach to Smartphone-Based Human Activity Recognition
Acquisition of Unlabeled Dataset for Human Activity Recognition
Road Quality Assessment
Relationship between the Road Quality of Riobamba-Penipe, Riobamba-Guano and the Cost of Bus Maintenance (Spanish language)
Influence of Vehicle Velocity in Obtaining International Roughness Index with a Smartphone (Spanish language)
In the Classroom
Can Smartphones Capture Solar Flares?
Solar activity impacts the ambient magnetic fields measured on Earth. Can smartphones accurately capture this solar activity? Research suggests "smartphones provide conceptual access and metacognitive insight but not quantitative resolution".
Studying Planar Light Sources
While typical introductory physics courses looks at the decay rate of illuminance from a point source, this article presents another setup, allowing students to determine decay rates for planar sources.
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