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Eur. J. Phys. vol 34, issue 5, P 1277 , (2013).
F J Abellán, A Arenas, M J Núñez2 and L Victoria.
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Murcia, E-30100 Murcia, Spain and
Departamento de Electromagnetismo y Electrónica, Universidad de Murcia, E-30100 Murcia, Spain and
Abstract
In this paper we describe how a Nintendo Wii remote control (known as the Wiimote) can be used in the design and implementation of several undergraduate-level experiments in a physics laboratory class. An experimental setup composed of a Wiimote and a conveniently located IR LED allows the trajectory of one or several moving objects to be tracked and recorded accurately, in both long and short displacement. The authors have developed a user interface program to configure the operation of the acquisition system of such data. The two experiments included in this work are the free fall of a body with magnetic braking and the simple pendulum, but other physics experiments could have been chosen. The treatment of the data was performed using Bayesian inference.
