weather station
visitors this year: 57 Weather station With a data logger several sensors can be used together to monitor the weather over periods lasting weeks. Suitable sensors include temperature, pressure, humidity, light or even a...
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battery life
visitors this year: 41 Battery life In this experiment an electrical cell is tested to exhaustion. The cell might be a dry-cell, an alkaline cell or a lead-acid accumulator. The decreasing voltage is measured...
measuring plant growth – long experiment
visitors this year: 118 A position sensor can be attached to a plant to record its growth. Depending on the plant chosen this is a very slow process. Using a sensor greatly decreases the...
a data logger is a scientist’s camera
visitors this year: 84 data loggers – the scientist’s camera! There is a rich world of data waiting to be collected. Take an accelerometer with you on a theme park roller coaster or if...
fermentation
visitors this year: 123 In the manufacture of yoghurt, bacteria turn lactose into lactic acid. The acid denatures or spoils the milk protein and sets it solid. In the process, the milk starts to...
video and data analysis tool – Coach Studio
visitors this year: 91 Update – Coach 7 was available in 2018. In 2008 I wrote: Coach 6 Studio provides a learning environment where you or students can work with models or create models...
software that works with most data-loggers: ‘Insight’
visitors this year: 68 Here is some excellent software that can collect and analyse data and it now works with a huge number of different brands. Called Insight and known to thousands of science...
about the ‘sid’ file format
visitors this year: 124 Q. What is SID? A. It’s a standard file format that every data logging manufacturer is encouraged to support. The results of data logging experiments can be better shared in...
data logging software choices
visitors this year: 222 The sensors and equipment you buy for school requires software made for it. There IS a generic program, called Insight (below). which works with lots of different manufacturer’s kit. It...
data & datafiles you can download to analyse
visitors this year: 55 Real results are often messy, but these all offer good material for discussion. This is the page from which you can download the results of other people’s experiments using sensors....
scientist 18: the data logger company – agriculture (2012)
visitors this year: 328 Roger Frost meets Tony Peloe from Cambridge firm, Delta-T, who supply plant and environment monitoring equipment to plant growers and researchers. Follow-up link: Delta-T www.delta-t.co.uk Tagged biology, Nicola Terry, physics,...
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