A flexible online apparatus for projectile launch experiments

• Author(s): Paiva, Carlos ; Nogueira, Pedro ; Alves, Gustavo R. ; Marques, Maria A. ; Guimarães, P. S. ; Couto, Ruben
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/4425
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Remote experiment; Projectile launch
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

In order to provide a more flexible learning environment in physics, the developed projectile launch apparatus enables students to determine the acceleration of gravity and the dependence of a set of parameters in the projectile movement. This apparatus is remotely operated and accessed via web, by first scheduling an access time slot. This machine has a number of configuration parameters that support different learning scenarios with different complexities.