phyphox 4+
Physical Phone Experiments
RWTH Aachen University
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Did you know that you are carrying a 3D magnetometer? That you can use your phone as a pendulum to measure earth's local gravitational acceleration? That you can turn your phone into a sonar?
phyphox gives you access to the sensors of your phone either directly or through ready-to-play experiments which analyze your data and let you export raw data along with the results for further analysis. You can even define your own experiments on phyphox.org and share them with colleagues, students and friends.
Selected Features:
- A selection of pre-defined experiments. Just press play to start.
- Export your data to a range of widely used formats
- Remote-control your experiment through a web interface from any PC on the same network as your phone. No need to install anything on those PCs - all you need is a modern web browser.
- Define your own experiments by selecting sensor inputs, defining analysis steps and creating views as an interface using our web-editor (http://phyphox.org/editor). The analysis can consists of just adding two values or using advanced methods like Fourier transforms and crosscorrelation. We offer a whole toolbox of analysis functions.
Sensors supported:
- Accelerometer
- Magnetometer
- Gyroscope
- Pressure
- Microphone
- Proximity
- GPS
*some sensors are not present on every phone.
Export formats
- CSV (Comma separated values)
- TSV (Tab-separated values)
- Excel
(if you need other formats, please let us know)
This app has been developed at the 2nd Institute of Physics A at the RWTH Aachen University.
What’s New
Version 1.1.16
- New image support in experiment configurations. (Not yet used in default configurations, but can be implemented by external ones.)
- Improved acoustic stopwatch performance, allowing for minimum delay settings below the internal audio buffer size of the device.
- Extend fix for pressure sensor on iOS 17.4 to all iOS 17 versions >= 17.4.
- Fix: Raw data not shown or exported in audio autocorrelation
Ratings and Reviews
Legendary
If you are a physics nerd this app is great for comparing theoretical data to real world data to gain a stronger understanding of how physics actually works. The data depending on ur phone model, sensitivity and calibration is obviously not 100% accurate or precise but it's accurate enough. Hope y'all have fun learning about and understanding how the world around you works!
German
The app is in german. I want english or spamish, not german. How do I change it? Don’t answer in german please ;)
Developer Response ,
The app follows the list of preferred languages set up in you iPhone's settings. Your list probably contains German for some reason - just hange the order of preferred languages or add English to the list above the German entry and phyphox should switch to English.
(BTW: We already have some volunteers working on a Spanish translation.)
Such a fun app to tinker with
Love it
App Privacy
The developer, RWTH Aachen University, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- RWTH Aachen University
- Size
- 17.9 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016 RWTH Aachen University
- Price
- Free