Detecting Motion with Cobra SMARTsense

Principle
The measuring trolley is moved over the rail by the students by hand and measured with the motion sensor.
Benefits

• Especially understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (relevance to everyday life, etc.) including protocol questions.
• Future-oriented teaching: Integration into digital science lessons with tablets or smartphones.
• Increased motivation of students by using the intuitive measureAPP.
• Increased media competence.

Tasks

• The students move the carriage at various constant speeds and accelerates to run over the rail and measure with the motion sensor.

Learning objectives
In this experiment, the students should intuitively learn the differences between accelerated and unaccelerated movements. In particular, the focus is on the students becoming familiar with time-distance diagrams. This is an introduction to the topic, as with measureAPP live the movement of a car can be seen as a change in the time-distance curve.