A Personal, Portable Electric Circuit Lab

Abstract

A portable setup consisting of a USB oscilloscope, an Arduino board and accessories is used for performing electricity experiments encountered in physics education: the AC response of circuits, charging/discharging of capacitors as well as inductive coupling between circuits. For documentation, analysis and plotting of the data, Jupyter notebooks are used as electronic lab-books. A range of typical experiments is presented in order to show the versatility of the setup and the lab-book. We strongly argue in favor of such portable measurement solutions in order to give students the possibility to do in-depth experiments outside the traditional laboratory classes.