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Physics Experiments with Arduino and Smartphones

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Authors:
  1. Giovanni Organtini

    1. Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

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  • Integrates, in a unique way, physics, data collection and analysis, and computer programming
  • Offers a modern approach to physics experiments, with Arduino and Smartphones used as DAQ systems
  • Allows the reader to perform significant experiments even in the absence of a fully equipped laboratory

Part of the book series: Undergraduate Texts in Physics (UNTEPH)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Physics and Nature

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 1-9

  3. Establishing a System of Units

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 11-22

  4. Collecting Data

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 23-41

  5. Uncertainties

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 43-54

  6. Establishing Physical Laws

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 55-77

  7. Free-Fall and Accelerations

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 79-106

  8. Understanding Data Distributions

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 107-165

  9. Counting Experiments

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 167-193

  10. The Normal Distribution

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 195-214

  11. Kinematics

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 215-253

  12. Oscillations

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 255-290

  13. Maximum Likelihood

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 291-302

  14. Physics in Non-inertial Systems

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 303-320

  15. Dynamics of Rigid Bodies

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 321-346

  16. Wave Mechanics

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages 347-386

  17. Correction to: Physics Experiments with Arduino and Smartphones

    • Giovanni Organtini
    Pages C1-C1

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 387-397
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About this book

This book on the use of Arduino and Smartphones in physics experiments, with a focus on mechanics, introduces various techniques by way of examples. The main aim is to teach students how to take meaningful measurements and how to interpret them. Each topic is introduced by an experiment. Those at the beginning of the book are rather simple to build and analyze. As the lessons proceed, the experiments become more refined and new techniques are introduced. Rather than providing recipes to be adopted while taking measurements, the need for new concepts is raised by observing the results of an experiment. A formal justification is given only after a concept has been introduced experimentally. The discussion extends beyond the taking of measurements to their meaning in terms of physics, the importance of what is learned from the laws that are derived, and their limits. Stress is placed on the importance of careful design of experiments as to reduce systematic errors and on good practices toavoid common mistakes. Data are always analyzed using computer software. C-like structures are introduced in teaching how to program Arduino, while data collection and analysis is done using Python. Several methods of graphical representation of data are used.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

    Giovanni Organtini

About the author

Giovanni Organtini is a professor of experimental physics at Sapienza University of Rome. He worked on the L3 experiment at LEP, then joined the CMS collaboration at LHC with which the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012. He is also a member of the PADME collaboration aiming at possible detection of dark photons. He served as Director of the Physics Museum in Rome for five years. Giovanni Organtini is among the most recognised experts worldwide in using affordable digital technologies to perform meaningful and precise physics measurements and invented the Schools of Physics with Arduino and Smartphones in Italy. He is very active in physics popularization, also by innovative media like FISICAST: a podcast about physics in Italian, as well as leading successful STEAM projects nationwide.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Physics Experiments with Arduino and Smartphones

  • Authors: Giovanni Organtini

  • Series Title: Undergraduate Texts in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65140-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65139-8Published: 07 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65140-4Published: 06 October 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2510-411X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2510-4128

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 397

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 114 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Programming Techniques

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