PhysLogger is a family of hardware devices and software tools that can measure and control a range of physical quantities—letting you fully discover the underlying scientific concepts of experiments without getting lost in mundane or difficult steps!
PhysLogger enables oneself to measure, analyze, and control physical quantities with live plots and interactive widgets. It is a combination of a pocket sized PhysLogger device, a rich desktop application, and a suite of sensing and controlling devices we call PhysInstruments.
In a typical application, using self-guided tours in the PhysLogger desktop application, one can set up several instruments connected via USB-C style connectors to the PhysLogger. Physical quantities like temperature, voltage, force, magnetic flux, intensity, and sound level can be viewed as time plots on the screen with just a few clicks.
Learn more about PhysLogger at this website.
Measure
PhysLogger records physical quantities using a pocket sized device and displays it on computer screen for measurement and analysis.
Control
Don’t just be a bystander, surge into and impact processes by controlling basic physical quantities.
Create
PhysLogger requires a computer once to be configured for a particular setup. However once set-up, it retains this configuration even when the computer has been removed! This is how PhysLogger brings the analysis and innovation together under one roof.
Use our modular PhysInstruments , open-source facilities, and this forum to reconfigure these tools for multiple kinds of investigations, build your own experiments, provide feedbacks, and offer improvements.
Features
- Plug and play hardware
- Compatible with 15 sensors and instruments
- USB C connections
- Modular and scalable
- Can interconnect to form a chain of PhysLoggers
- Highly intuitive
- Requires no programming skills
- Lightweight application
- Freedom to create your own interface or use templates
- Self guided tours
- Automatic updates
PhysLogger is a data acquisition and logging device. Augmented with a complete suite of conditioned sensors, an intuitive and refreshing interface, and buttressed by rapid, community support, the PhysLogger family aims to liberate. It frees us from the need to buy expensive equipment, long wait times, and gives a paradigm shift through a modular tapestry of scientific articles that can be reconfigured to create altogether new experiments, and scientific instruments.
List of Experiments conducted with PhysLogger
PhysLogger and its family has been utilized to build a suite of pedagogical experiments. Find below the list of experiments:
How do objects Heat and Cool Comparing natural and forced convection
Modeling the Response of a Thermistor
Arterial oscillations in blood pressure measurement
Flux and rate of change of flux with a Hall sensor and solenoids
Latent Heat of Vaporization of Liquid Nitrogen with a Load Sensor
Rotational mechanics with a photogate
Experiments with a linear air track
Dynamics of water discharge using Physlogger
Electrical conductivity of a semiconductor
Temperature oscillations in a metal: Probing aspects of Fourier analysis with PhysLogger
PhysMag: Nonlinear Dynamics with a Magnetic Pendulum
Verifying Gas laws and thermodynamics of a heat engine with Physlogger
How to Download PhysLogger Desktop App?
Follow these simple steps to get the latest copy of PhysLogger Desktop along with the needed hardware drivers
Quick Start Guide
For the quickest start, refer to this pictorial guide.
