Phyphox app in the physics classroom
Ryan Carroll, James Lincoln
Abstract
The phyphox app has demonstrated itself to be useful and impressive for physics teaching. The app is free to download and has so many features that it seems it may be particularly helpful in this time of distance learning. Phyphox (pronounced to sound like “physics”) works for Android and Apple phones, and there are many experiments already available for it online and built in. In this article we describe some of the best experiments to do with the app, provide advice for finding and writing labs, and go further to suggest how phyphox might help add interactive minilabs to our physics lectures.
Topics & Concepts
Physics educationDownloadAndroid (operating system)Mobile appsMultimediaComputer scienceWorld Wide WebMathematics educationPhysicsHuman–computer interactionPsychologyOperating systemExperimental and Theoretical Physics StudiesInnovative Teaching MethodsExperimental Learning in Engineering