REMOTE LAB FOR PHYSICS IN HIGH SCHOOL

The teachers worldwide are now facing a new challenge: accessing real objects from a remote location. The paper describes an attempt of designing a remote laboratory in the Physics lab of Grigore Moisil High School from Bucharest. The main goal is to develop some simple and safe experiments in order to access them from anywhere at anytime. The first virtual interaction from a distance consists of turning on a gusher fountain made with recycled materials. The interaction was established by using a network camera with digital output of 5 V that can command the circuits of the fountain. After this, a Lab VIEW remote panel comes for operating on machines that are separated from where the VI resides and executes. The front panel was embedded into a webpage where it operates. This required a web browser, Lab VIEW run-time engine and a browser plug-in on the client machine. This way we have driven our rovers from a distance. The first remote experiment was the study of linear motions, than the sound level dependency relative to the distance from the source and the light level dependency relative to the distance from the light source.