Measuring Pi with Smartphone Sensors: A Fun and Educational Challenge
Today is Pi Day !! The occasion to celebrate Pi, this mathematical constant which has fascinated the whole world for millennia and which,...
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Interesting articles published regularly on education and science teaching, the use of FizziQ, or scientific articles.
Christophe Chazot
- Feb 23
- 7 min
5 science projects in biomechanics with a smartphone
Do you know that biomechanics allows athletes to boost their performance by applying the laws of mechanics to living beings? In this...
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Christophe Chazot
- Feb 20
- 5 min
Five math experiments to do with your smartphone
In this article, we propose five activities in the field of mathematics to be carried out with your smartphone. They can be offered to...
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Christophe Chazot
- Feb 2
- 7 min
Seven experiments to measure the speed of sound
Calculating the speed of sound is one of the easiest experiments to perform with a smartphone. For students, this calculation is very...
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Christophe Chazot
- Nov 28, 2022
- 9 min
Six science experiments with the tone generator
Tone generators, also called frequency generators or synthesizers, can be used to conduct many exciting scientific experiments to...
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Christophe Chazot
- Nov 24, 2022
- 7 min
How to see a sound
You can see the swell, a mechanical wave that propagates on the surface of the water; you can also see an earthquake; but can we see a...
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Christophe Chazot
- Nov 9, 2022
- 4 min
Kinematics analysis of pole vault jumping
The movement of athletes is one of the most interesting subjects of kinematic study. The precision of gestures, the transformation of...
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Christophe Chazot
- Jul 6, 2022
- 5 min
Fun and serious Low Frequency Oscillators effects (LFO)
In this blog, we will study the acoustic phenomenon of rhythmic pulses. This effect is very easy to create with the FizziQ application...
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Christophe Chazot
- Dec 17, 2021
- 6 min
Why is green light used in watches to measure heartbeat ?
Many applications allow you to calculate the heart rate using only the camera of a smartphone. On what principles are these applications...
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Christophe Chazot
- Oct 2, 2021
- 2 min
Does adding two sounds really increase the sound level by 3 decibels?
It is not easy to demonstrate in class that the addition of two sound sources of the same intensity leads to an increase in the sound...
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Christophe Chazot
- Apr 22, 2021
- 4 min
Why is the accelerometer value 9.8 m/s²?
You have probably noticed that when you select absolute acceleration and leave your cell phone stationary, the measurement displayed is...
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Christophe Chazot
- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
What is the difference between linear and absolute acceleration?
Quand on ouvre le menu accéléromètre dans FizziQ on trouve deux types d'accélération : l'accélération linéaire et l'accélération absolue.
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