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Teaching motion with the Global Positioning System

Marko Budisa and Gorazd Planinsic

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We have used the GPS receiver and a PC interface to track different types of motion. Various hands-on experiments that enlighten the physics of motion at the secondary school level are suggested (visualization of 2D and 3D motion, measuring car drag coefficient and fuel consumption).


PACS

01.50.My Demonstration experiments and apparatus

84.40.Ua Telecommunications: signal transmission and processing; communication satellites

01.40.E- Science in school

Subjects

Electronics and devices

Education and communication

Dates

Issue 6 (November 2003)

Received 7 November 2002, in final form 24 April 2003



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