Usando o Arduino e a linguagem Python no ensino de Física

Abstract

With the popularity of computers and the increase of its presence in our daily lives, educators has been undertaking research seeking more and better ways to include them in the teaching-learning process of Physics. In this work, based on existing literature, we make an apresentation of many ways to use computers to the teaching physics, giving more attention on data capture in real time and computational modeling, identifying advantages and disadvantages, giving examples and suggesting approaches to use in the classroom. Besides the computer itself, we’ll make use of open source hardware and software showing be possible build a better experience with discipline by the alumni without falling into expenses beyond capacity of our schools. We present the Arduino platform showing its versatility of use in experiments by involving control, capture and analisys of data in real time. Also we present the programming language Python in use alone and in conjuction to Arduino to support visualizations of images and numerical solutions of simple harmonic oscillator.