Using “Student Technology” in Introductory Physics: A Comparison of Three High Tech Tools to Study Falling Objects

SARAIVA DA ROCHA F., FAJARDO F., GRISOLÍA M., BENEGAS J. AND TCHITNGA R AND LAWS P.

THE PHYSICS TEACHER

AAPT

Lugar: Washington DC ; Año: 2011 vol. 49 p. 165 - 169

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Being able to facilitate effective hands-on laboratoryexperiences in introductory physics courses is a challengingtask, even when contemporary laboratoryfacilities, equipment, and new technologies for data collectionand analysis are available. At institutions without adequateresources, especially those in developing countries, wehave found that the problem of providing effective laboratoryexperiences is especially daunting for at least two reasons: 1)the lack of equipment and contemporary measuring devices;and 2) even at institutions that have some laboratory equipment,students who have access to cell phones with digitaltiming and video capabilities or inexpensive digital camerasare bored with trying