Abstract:
These days, smart phone have become a part and parcel of student’s lives. These are mainly used for communication purposes and for entertainment applications, their educational uses are not being exploited by parents, teachers and students. The greatest challenge in front of a physics teacher is to transform this Android gadget considered nuisance by society into an Alladin’s lamp. The process will create an exciting environment in the classroom and teaching physics will become innovative. Hence the purpose of this project is to transcend all barriers and make mobile phones a boon rather than a bane. Moreover this project will also lay strong foundation for sustainable development which our posterity will rejoice about. We can explore the smart phones in terms of their use as data collection system, data processing system through their inbuilt sensors such as gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer etc. These sensors enable the device to perform measurements like thickness of hair, wavelength of a laser light, oscillation data of a balloon, value of acceleration due to gravity and measure angle value of a slope, study of beats using spectrum app. Thus along with the functions of Android phones themselves, many free apps available in Google are educational resource for a physics teacher and can be explored to teach physics effectively and in an interesting way
