The sensors of mobile devices: a innovative tool in the teaching of physical sciences

TL;DR

This paper explores how built-in mobile device sensors can serve as accessible, portable laboratories to enhance physics education in high school and early university, replacing costly equipment and expanding experimental possibilities.

Contribution

It introduces innovative methods for using mobile sensors as practical tools in physics teaching, making experiments more accessible and feasible.

Findings

Mobile sensors enable cost-effective physics experiments.

Sensors expand experimental scope in educational settings.

Potential for integrating mobile sensors into physics curricula.

Abstract

We show how builtin sensors in mobile devices can be used as portable laboratories at the service of teaching experimental sciences, especially physics, in the last years of high school and first years of university. We describe experiments that previously required expensive apparatus or were not feasible in teaching laboratories. Finally, we discuss some perspectives about the use of sensors in the physics teaching.