Communicating Physics: From Classroom to Lab to Playground

In this talk, the speaker will present some innovative ideas that have been implemented in the teaching of fundamental physics at the university level. These include visually appealing demonstrations inside the classroom and novel laboratory experiments for science, engineering and physics students. This innovation enables the use of modern smart devices and sensors such as smartphones, cameras and original software used to track the kinematics of rigid as well as the shape analysis of nonrigid bodies such as blobs and balloons...