Laboratory Physics IV based on low-cost experiments: a report on a remote teaching experiencedue to the COVID-19 pandemic

In this work, we present a report on the offer of the discipline of Physics Laboratory IV discipline in a emergency remote learning regime because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this discipline, which is part of the curriculum of higher education courses in the Exact Sciences area and Engineering, experiments designed with low-cost and accessible materials were carried out by students in their own homes, with teacher support through synchronous classes (via web-conference), e-mail and discussion forums. The experimental activities were elaborated mainly from articles published in Physics Education journals and involve themes of geometric optics, physical optics, Michelson interferometer and spectroscopy. We present here the description of these experiments as well as the results obtained by students in each one of them. We show that the students were able to permorm the experimental setups, as well as the quantitative measurements with care and precision similar to what would be carried out in equivalent face-to-face experiments at physics teaching laboratories.

Keywords
Remote Learning; Distance Learning; Low Cost Experiments; Optics; Covid-19