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Insertion of Smartphones in the classroom as an auxiliary tool in the learning of experimental physics.

Currently Smartfone is a multi-purpose instrument with a plethora of applications that are used in various work fields. It is already a popular portable device that is present in all economic classes and there is no way to separate it from the human being. Smartphones are pocket-sized computers, and have a huge variety of functions. We have to keep in mind that this device is not only for communication, entertainment and socialization, because it has a range of sensors such as microphone, ccd cameras, accelerometers and inclinometers etc. which are used by a variety of applications. These can replace equipment of measures that present / display high cost of acquisition, or, to replace the use of didactic laboratories. The cell phone is an attractive and thought-provoking element for high school students, and can be used to conduct experiments and demonstrations of phenomena. In the course will be presented a diversity of applications allied to applications in low cost home experiments. The main objective is to make future teaching professionals use these applications in their classes in order to make physics more investigative. Consequently, this will make the student use this device in their daily life, making it possible to combine theory and practice