The phyphox app has demonstrated itself to be useful and impressive for physics teaching. The app is free to download and has so many features that it seems it may be particularly helpful in this time of distance learning. Phyphox (pronounced to sound like “physics”) works for Android and Apple phones, and there are many experiments already available for it online and built in. In this article we describe some of the best experiments to do with the app, provide advice for finding and writing labs, and go further to suggest how phyphox might help add interactive minilabs to our physics lectures.

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Phyphox app, https://phyphox.org.
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Sebastian
Staacks
,
Simon
Hütz
,
Heidrun
Heinke
, and
Christoph
Stampfer
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Simple time-of-flight measurement of the speed of sound using smartphones
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A.
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For a PowerPoint, please see TPT Online, https://www.scitation.org/doi/suppl/10.1119/10.0002393, under the Supplemental tab.
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The phyphox YouTube channel has many helpful videos.
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These approaches are explored at length in the inventor’s (Sebastian Staacks) video, https://youtube/sGAZQNUBYCc.

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