Smartphone como uma alternativa para o ensino de Física experimental: o uso do acelerômetro

Abstract

Physics teachers have a challenge at each class. Having the students learning the physical concepts, able to interpret equations and graphs. The experimental physics makes this subject a little more attractive to students. The search for new teaching methods is continuous. At the same time the shortage of resources in schools makes us to invent a new method every day. You can achieve this goal, having resources that are within your reach. The smartphone is one of the resources that we have in hands and we can use this tool to help us. Thus, our goal is also to seek greater interest from students, who from their everyday tool can assimilate the physical concepts through simple experiments. This work has allowed us to demonstrate that with the smartphone is able to simulate simple physical experiments, and be able to capture data with average experimental as small error 2.5%, then permissible for experimental physics teaching.