Vernier LabPro.
Vernier vernier (vûr`nēr), auxiliary scale, either straight or an arc of a circle, designed to slide along a fixed scale. Its unit divisions, usually smaller than those on the fixed scale, permit a far more precise reading. Software & Technology www.vernier.com/palm
With the Vernier LabPro interface and Data Pro software, you can collect science data with Vernier sensors - Thermocouple
- RTD - Resistance Temperature Detector or Resistance thermometer or Pt100
- Microphone
- Hydrophones
- Seismometers
- Photoresistor
- Phototransistor
- Infrared thermometer
- Multi-User Multimodal Tabletop Interaction
- Cationic Sensor
on your palmOne handheld handheld: see personal digital assistant. . (Choose from 50 different sensors.) Data-collection technology is easy to use and allows students to see data graphed as they are being collected. Popular features include curve fitting Curve fitting is finding a curve which matches a series of data points and possibly other constraints. This section is an introduction to both interpolation (where an exact fit to constraints is expected) and regression analysis. Both are sometimes used for extrapolation. and statistical analysis of data. Our popular lab book, Science with Handhelds, comes with 42 printed experiments and 234 experiments on the included CD.
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