We present the process of measuring the acceleration of an elevator developed with the use of electronic and computing resources available on a tablet and the use of an application called Physics Toolbox Accelerometer developed for the Android operating system. The data collected with the use of electronic sensors embedded in the tablet were conveniently treated by the computer program SciDAVis. The methodology has shown to be potentially promising for practices of teaching physics that seek innovation in the teaching laboratory through the use of emerging technologies with low costs.
Keywords:
physics teaching; M-learning; acceleration
