Investigating Circular Motion through Phyphox and Excel

Investigating Circular Motion through Phyphox and Excel

TAN Guan Seng, YEEM Kai Ean Silas, POH Boon Hor

NUS High School

Using common household items like lazy Susan and salad spinners to investigate circular motion. With the help of smartphones and PhyPhox, students will collect and process the experimental data. Then using MS Excel, they will visualize and model the data to arrive at an equation for the centripetal acceleration.