Air-Pressure | Sebastian Spicker

2021

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17 Sep 2021 Mission to Mars: Teaching Air Pressure with a Smartphone and a Vacuum Pump You give students a vacuum pump, a bag of household materials, and a smartphone running phyphox. Their task: build a spaceship prototype that will survive the pressure difference between the crew compartment and space. A design-based inquiry experiment published in The Physics Teacher in 2022, and one of the more memorable experiments I have been part of running. astronomy-educationair-pressuresmartphones