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The aim is to explore how AI can aid teachers in physics education through custom instrumentation.

January 6, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Democratising Scientific Software in Physics Education: AI-Assisted Custom Instrumentation for Teachers

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The aim is to explore how AI can aid teachers in physics education through custom instrumentation.
Developed a Python GUI using Tkinter for experiment data collection and analysis.
Utilized an ESP32 microcontroller and VL53L0X laser ranging unit for measurements.
Created a system that graphs distance vs time and calculates the spring constant.
Demonstrated effective data control and analysis through the Python GUI.
Provided a fitted anharmonic model for system velocities and accelerations.

Abstract

This preprint (submitted to IOP Phys. Ed. describes how AI can be used to develop a Python GUI (using Tkinter) to control, collect, analyse, save and retrieve the experiment measurements. Data produced are graph of distance vs time with a calculated value for the spring constant and the system's velocities and accelerations according to a fitted anharmonic model. The measurement device only requires a distance-measuring VL53L0X laser ranging unit and a microcontroller (ESP32 used here) mounted and connected on an appropriate contruction board. All the codes can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/17980934 A short video of the system working can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/17980784

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Richard Mortimer (Sat,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/695d85373483e917927a4296 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18146638