Physics¶
Teaching material for the physics lesson of Part 2: AI & Science.
Lesson material¶
Which version do I need?
The student version is the worksheet you hand out. The teacher version is the same lesson including the worked answers, for your own preparation.
Sharing the material with your students
The worksheet refers to the files below by name, so you can download them and share them with your students in any way you like (for example in your school's learning platform). Students also need the planet file of their group's exoplanet from the Exoplanet Files.
Emmy's prompt¶
Emmy is an AI research mentor. She is not an app but a prompt: students copy the text of this file and paste it as the first message in a new chat with any AI chatbot (for example ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Copilot). Emmy then guides them through their own investigation with questions, and asks them to reflect on how science works.
Star image for the experiment¶
Students display this image on their phone as the star. During the experiment they move the "planet" in front of it while the light sensor records the dip in brightness. Each student downloads it to their own phone.
Data-analysis notebook¶
Students use this notebook in Google Colab to load and analyse their light-sensor data: it draws the light curve, computes the transit depth, and lets students test which relationship between transit depth and planet size fits their data. It accepts exports from phyphox (Android), Physics Toolbox, the Arduino Science Journal, or any plain CSV.
Click Open in Colab to run it in the browser without installing anything, or download the file to share it yourself.
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Exoplanet_transit_analysis_notebook.ipynb |