Using Arduino and online block-structured programing language for physics practical work

Distance learning in physics is still facing challenges, mainly due to the difficult access to a laboratory for practical work. Practical work is an essential part of the physics classroom because it allows students to interact with authentic physics phenomena and develop their scientific abilities....

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Published inPhysics education Vol. 56; no. 5; pp. 55028 - 55037
Main Authors Pratidhina, Elisabeth, Rosana, Dadan, Kuswanto, Heru, Dwandaru, Wipsar Sunu Brams
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brecon IOP Publishing 01.09.2021
Subjects
Arduino
block-structured programming
Distance Education
Distance learning
Energy
Graphs
Laboratory Equipment
Laboratory Experiments
Light
Light emitting diodes
Physics
practical work
Programming environments
Programming Languages
Science Experiments
Structured programming
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Summary:Distance learning in physics is still facing challenges, mainly due to the difficult access to a laboratory for practical work. Practical work is an essential part of the physics classroom because it allows students to interact with authentic physics phenomena and develop their scientific abilities. In this paper, we propose alternative experiments that can be carried out at home with affordable apparatus. We explain the use of an Arduino UNO board and block-structured programming environment to design physics experiments about investigating light-emitting diodes and capacitor characteristics. Block-structured programming in the common-coding builder is used because it has extensive features such as plotting data in a graph directly and programming the Arduino board. Moreover, a user with no prior knowledge of programming can use it easily.
Bibliography:PED-102718.R2
ISSN:0031-9120
1361-6552
DOI:10.1088/1361-6552/ac12a6