David Sidebottom, PhD, professor in the Department of Physics, recently had his article/video featured by American Association of Physics Teachers.
The article, titled “Inexpensive robots used to teach dc circuits and electronics”, describes inexpensive, autonomous robots, built without microprocessors, used in a college-level introductory physics laboratory course to motivate student learning of dc circuits. Detailed circuit descriptions are provided as well as a week-by-week course plan that guides students from elementary dc circuits, through Kirchhoff’s laws, and into simple analog integrated circuits with the motivational incentive of building an autonomous robot that can compete with others in a public arena.
Watch the video.
The article was also published in the American Journal of Physics.
