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A lab in the pocket

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With the right app, smartphones can become a powerful tool for teaching physics and for increasing the popularity of this important subject.

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Fig. 1: Smartphone sensors.

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  1. 2nd Institute of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Christoph Stampfer & Sebastian Staacks

  2. 1st Institute of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Heidrun Heinke

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