Our institute has just released an app, aiming at bringing physics experiments to your phone.

We all use smartphones for browsing the web, checking e-mail, texting and playing. But these small computers can do much more. Modern smartphones are equipped with an impressive variety of sophisticated sensors, ranging from accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and pressure sensors.

Phyphox exploits these sensors for performing and developing physics experiments. With phyphox (short for physical phone experiments), you can use the accelerometer and the gyroscope of your smartphone to track the movement of a pendulum and determine its angular velocity. You can also measure the speed of an elevator by exploiting the pressure sensor. Or you can turn your smartphone into a sonar to measure the distance between objects. And these are just a few examples: phyphox allows you to set up your own experiments by using a simple and well documented web-editor.

More information on phyphox.org.