Angular momentum
Abstract
The gyroscope in a smartphone was employed in a physics laboratory setting to verify the conservation of angular momentum and the nonconservation of rotational kinetic energy. As is well-known, smartphones are ubiquitous on college campuses. These devices have a panoply of built-in sensors. This creates a unique opportunity for a new paradigm in the physics laboratory.1–3 Many traditional physics experiments can now be performed very conveniently in a pedagogically enlightening environment while simultaneously reducing the laboratory budget substantially by using student-owned smartphones.
Faculty Members
- Asif Shakur - Salisbury University , Salisbury, MD 21801; AMSHAKUR@salisbury.edu
- Taylor Sinatra - Salisbury University , Salisbury, MD 21801; AMSHAKUR@salisbury.edu
Themes
- Physics education
- Cost reduction in education
- Laboratory experiment enhancement
- Use of technology in education
- Educational innovation
Categories
- Educational instructional technology and media design
- Education research
- Curriculum and instruction
- Physical sciences
- Electromechanical technologies
- Electrical and electronics engineering
- STEM educational methods
- Electrical and computer engineering
- Physics
- Applied physics
- Education
- Teacher education, science and engineering
- Teacher education
- Engineering
- Physics and physical sciences nec
- Engineering technologies
- Electrical and electronic engineering technologies
- Engineering technologies nec