Accelab is an educational app that helps students collect the data for three physics labs: a cart on an air track, a projectile, and circular motion.
Choose the experiment first, then one of two ways to measure it:
⋅ Camera (recommended for the air track): film the cart with your iPhone, or choose a video you already have. Mark any known length in the shot, and Accelab follows the cart through the video. It can follow an object in flight, or a marker going round, the same way.
⋅ Sensor: attach your iPhone to the cart, or lay it flat on a turntable, and measure its motion with the built-in sensors.
Accelab can help you:
⋅ Make sure that your air track is set up with the angle you chose
⋅ Collect the distance-time data of your cart as it travels down the air track
⋅ Collect the x and y position of a projectile against time, with your iPhone levelled first
⋅ Collect the position and angle of a marker going round a circle against time, filmed from above
⋅ Measure the angular velocity and the centripetal and tangential acceleration of a turntable against time, with your iPhone lying on it
⋅ Check the tracked points on the video and correct any of them by hand
⋅ Create a CSV file with the collected data, or copy it straight into Desmos: all of it, or just the two columns for the graph you want to plot
⋅ Save a photo of the run with every tracked point marked on it
⋅ Come back to your finished runs later in Past Runs
Accelab is an open-source project developed by a student.
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Accelab 2.2 adds a third experiment to both methods: circular motion.
⋅ Circular Motion: with the camera, film a marker going round from straight above, and Accelab fits the circle and gives you the marker's x, y and angle against time, with the radius. With the sensors, lay your iPhone flat on a turntable, and Accelab records its angular velocity and its centripetal and tangential acceleration, with ω² in the export, ready to plot a against ω².
⋅ Choose the experiment first, then the method. Each method's tile shows the graph you will plot and the columns of data you get.
⋅ Export by graph: choose the graph you want, and Accelab exports just its two columns, ready to paste into Desmos. All Data and a custom choice of columns are still there.
⋅ Past Runs lists each run by its experiment, with the method and date underneath.
Version 2.2
The developer, Eun Kyoung Kim, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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