Gravity: now also available on smartphones (Image: Peter Dazeley/Getty)
FIDDLY lab equipment may soon become a thing of the past for some classroom physics experiments. A new app for the iPhone lets students use the phone’s camera to make scientific measurements.
, developed by Timo Rüppell at the Helsinki Institute of Physics in Finland and Juha Pietiläinen, a maths and physics teacher in Helsinki, helps analyse the motion of falling objects and measure the angles at which beams of light refract through different objects – experiments that physics students around the world have to perform.
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