Development of a Mobile Application to Enhance Scientific Reasoning Abilities in a GE Course for Non-STEM Majors

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Abstract

We report on progress on the development of a new mobile application to perform data acquisition and analysis of sound in the context of physics of music. Our goal is to implement this new app in a general education course for non-STEM majors to enable hands-on learning experiences and increase scientific reasoning abilities and literacy. We have developed a set of tools for these purposes including a tone generator, waveform measurement, fast Fourier transform, noise reduction, and inverse Fourier transform.

*This work is supported by the National Science Foundation.

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Presenters

  • Spencer M Pollard

    • Department of Physics, California State University, Chico

Authors

  • Spencer M Pollard

    • Department of Physics, California State University, Chico

  • Evan Goertzen

    • Department of Computer Science, California State University, Chico

  • Michael Hart

    • Department of Physics, California State University, Chico

  • Hyewon K Pechkis

    • Department of Physics, California State University, Chico

  • Bryan Dixon

    • Department of Computer Science, California State University, Chico

  • Joseph A Pechkis

    • Department of Physics, California State University, Chico