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Free fall (smartphone experiment with phyphox)


The aim of the experiment

You can use your smartphone to determine the acceleration due to gravity in class or at home. The app on your smartphone determines the time span
tthat a body in case it falls from a certain height Hneeded. The acceleration due to gravity can then be derived from thisGto calculate.

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Required prior knowledge


To understand this free fall experiment you should ...
... the law of time and distance s =
1

2
⋅ a ⋅ t of a uniformly accelerated movement.
2

... this time-distance law after acceleration a can switch.

Note: You can find information on this via the list of links at the end of the article.

Materials needed
Smartphone or tablet with the phyphox app

For the simple version


Ball (if possible made of metal)
Ruler and pen (both made of metal if possible) Fig. 1 Setup and implementation of the
experiment to investigate free fall with the
For the more demanding version help of a smartphone and the phyphox app
Mass piece with hook (if possible made of metal)
several balloons with a suitable holder and a needle
a metal plate

Construction and implementation


In the following video, Sebastian from the phyphox team introduces you to the most important steps to set up and carry out the experiment.

Smartphone-Experiment: Freier Fall (de)

Recording of the measured values ​with phyphox


The "acoustic stopwatch" from phyphox starts and stops the timer of the smartphone when noises are received via the built-in microphone that are
louder than a previously set threshold. A minimum delay can be specified so that a slightly longer noise does not stop the timer again immediately after
the start. During this time after the start, a second sound is not interpreted as a stop signal. In the "SIMPLE" tab you can make these settings and read
off the measured time span between the two noises.

Help with implementation


The greater the height from which the ball falls, the more accurate the measurement.
If you place the smartphone at half the height of the fall, the influence of the speed of sound stands out from the measurement.

task

Determination of the gravitational acceleration

Measure the height H, from which the ball is dropped and with phyphox the fall time tthat the ball needs from the start of the movement until it
hits the ground.
Use this data to determine a value for the acceleration due to gravity G.

Show solution>

About phyphox

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The phyphox app is developed by RWTH Aachen University and is available free of charge to anyone interested . phyphox enables you to experiment
with the sensors of your smartphone, to record measured values ​and to evaluate them.

Click here to go to the website of the project / phyphox for iOS / phyphox for Android

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