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Science Apps (iOS): Scientific Timer: LabTimer

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Thursday, June 9, 2011. For today's review I consider using your iPhone or iPad as a timer. There are numerous apps to perform this basic task, and after considering several I selected LabTimer. For review. My main reasons for this choice were price (free), device support (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) and the availability of a large number of simultaneous timers. It has lap features, useful for athletic timing. If so, why not leave a brief description in the comment section. 10 Great Science App Sites.

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Science Apps (iOS): Pasco SPARKvue Data Collection

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Pasco SPARKvue Data Collection. An app that allows one to collect data from the accelerometers, but also from a wide array of other Pasco sensors through a wireless interface. The world of data collection, at least for high school and university physics classrooms, is largely dominated by two companies, PASCO. When you first start the SPARKvue app it seems rather bare. I later realized this was deliberately to leave the graphical display as uncluttered as possible. You doub...Or in...

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Science Apps (iOS): 10 Great Science App Sites

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012. 10 Great Science App Sites. Rather than review an individual app I thought that it might be time again to draw together the best sites for information on apps suitable for science. I have tried to concentrate on those that are comprehensive and provide detailed critical information on the apps. I was somewhat surprised that with that criteria it was hard to actually find many sites, and the last few tend not to be terribly broad or comprehensive. Teach With Your iPad Wiki.

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Science Apps (iOS): Science 360 from National Science Foundation

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Friday, June 10, 2011. Science 360 from National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation in the U.S.A. released on June 9, 2011 a new free iPad App called Science 360. The news release. As it warns, the high resolution images and video are data intensive, so be cautious using this if you are on a wireless data plan and not Wifi. For what it strives to do, it is intuitive and visually impressive. It is more a good place to occasionally browse, rather than to go specifically to learn or res...

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Science Apps (iOS): Equation editor for iPad - MathBot

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Monday, June 20, 2011. Equation editor for iPad - MathBot. Updated note: The problem on launch with MathBot has now been fixed and the app is working again. Among other changes, the new version allows landscape mode and an auto complete feature (last updated Feb. 23, 2012). In this column I will show you how to place high quality mathematical equations into Pages (or Keynote) on the iPad using the MathBot. So what exactly is MathBot? You can edit the markup contents of the middle panel in all the normal ...

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Science Apps (iOS): Molecules

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Friday, June 17, 2011. By Sunset Lake software renders 3D visualizations of molecules. The images are beautifully displayed, and the updating is incredibly fast and fluid even with complex molecules. This is a mature app that has been around for some time and has gone through a number of improvements. The app comes with a few complex molecules pre-installed. Some. This wonderful app was created by Brad Larson of Wisconsin. He is Chief Technology Officer at SonoPlot, Inc., a company that designs m...I hav...

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Science Apps (iOS): Wolfram Alpha

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011. The Wolfram Alpha iPhone/iPad app. Is a convenient way to access mathematical and scientific resources from Wolfram on your your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. While similar resources can be accessed directly from the Wolfram Alpha website. Now at $1.99 (initially it was many times this cost) it is hard to argue that any scientist or engineer should not purchase this app! I think many others, including those with an armchair interest in science, will find it a fascinating way to explo...

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Science Apps (iOS): Decibel 10

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012. A bit of background on decibels (dB). The decibel is used to compare two power levels, with the dB difference being 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the powers. More specifically we use dB in sound to compare the sound intensity values (W/m. For example if one sound level was 1000 times another, that would be a 30 dB difference. With sound it is conventional to establish a reference level of 0 dB at an intensity of 1.0x10. The app is developed by SkyPaw Ltd. I think the ...

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Science Apps (iOS): PhETs and Java on an iPad? (CloudBrowse)

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Saturday, April 14, 2012. PhETs and Java on an iPad? Which offers a way to run Java and Flash on the iPad. In particular I tried it out for running the PhET science simulations. In physics education the PhET. Physics Nobel Laureate Dr. Carl Wieman. Was formed. With such high scientific credentials, and strong support from a number of foundations, it is not surprising that PhETs are probably the best known, and the most valuable, science education simulations in the world. The CloudBrowse display has a nu...