Design and development equipment to measure the motion quantities of an object that moving in air or in fluid

Abstract

Abstract We have developed an equipment for time interval measurement of an object that move free fall in air or in water by using microprocessor Arduino as a clock timer and is controlled by pair of laser diode and photo diode. By this technique, the main problem how to find the equation of motion can be obtained. The results show that the equipment work well. The equipment is able to measure time interval of an object that move free fall in air or in water which position change up to 10 cm. By positioning the pair of laser diode and photo diode in six different heights we can plot the position as a function of time. By the aid of a personal computer software it is easily to obtain the equation of motion of the object move both in air or in water. This equipment is useful for high school and under graduate university student to measure the gravity intensity and to study the drag force in fluid.