Teaching physics with arduino

Drawing inspiration from the practices of design schools or art schools, this course proposes physicist students to make their own Students’ Lab. After an initiation in the form of challenges and games, they have to design and build their experimental setup, then analyze the results, in five days. It is an initiation close to the research process, which renews the vision that students have of experimental physics: more creative but also riskier and with unexpected outcomes!

We have published various articles related to this teaching; articles that present the teaching itself, and articles that detail some of the students’ projects.

This site allows students following this teaching to know its modalities and objectives.

These other projects are related to this teaching:

During a workshop in collaboration with a physicist, students in digital creation had to design four devices using smartphones or tablets and involving “traditional” optics. Their goal was to discover the effects of physics to the general public while trying a kind of “cheap” science, namely put in place a simple, effective and surprising effect.

During a workshop in collaboration with a physicist, students in digital creation had to design four devices using smartphones or tablets and involving “traditional” optics. Their goal was to discover the effects of physics to the general public while trying a kind of “cheap” science, namely put in place a simple, effective and surprising effect.

During a workshop in collaboration with a physicist, students in digital creation had to design four devices using smartphones or tablets and involving “traditional” optics. Their goal was to discover the effects of physics to the general public while trying a kind of “cheap” science, namely put in place a simple, effective and surprising effect.

During a workshop in collaboration with a physicist, students in digital creation had to design four devices using smartphones or tablets and involving “traditional” optics. Their goal was to discover the effects of physics to the general public while trying a kind of “cheap” science, namely put in place a simple, effective and surprising effect.

During a workshop in collaboration with a physicist, students in digital creation had to design four devices using smartphones or tablets and involving “traditional” optics. Their goal was to discover the effects of physics to the general public while trying a kind of “cheap” science, namely put in place a simple, effective and surprising effect.

Students in scientific illustration have collaborated with a physicist around four major discoveries of quantum physics: the transistor, graphene, Bose-Einstein condensates and new superconductors. For each discovery, they decided to create a laboratory pop-up and a poster in the same graphic style, inspired by the years when the discovery took place. Here is the result. Download – Print – Cut – Tape – Read – it’s done. For you, for your class, for your friends … Click on the discovery of your choice.

Students in scientific illustration have attempted, in collaboration with physicists, to stage physics equations, and not just any of them: the Schrödinger equation for quantum physics, that of Navier-Stokes for fluid mechanics , the equation of general relativity, and the propagation equation of electromagnetic waves. Each group of students used an original graphic form: the pop-up book, the poetic animation, the comic strip, and the animated gif. Discover and use these productions to understand and stage these fundamental equations.

This course offers an introduction to communication and popularization of science to undergraduate physics students. Each year, some twenty students have been able to develop their own outreach projects around an aspect of fundamental physics for five days. These projects are accompanied by various exercises and courses on science communication. All the projects are presented at the end of the workshop by the students themselves during a public session at the University in front of a large audience.

Show donné le 23 mai 2018 par les étudiants de l’option vulgarisation du magistère de physique d’Orsay (Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay).

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2018, Un pour la science et Tous pour un, un projet réalisé par Andréa Blin, Marjorie Galinier, Eloïse Mestre et Anna Ritz

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2018, Power Couleur, un projet réalisé par Victor Faraut, Ondine Guerin, Ahmed Ramdane et Marie Vulliet