MultiLab™ (PC / mac / Linux)

• Defining Sensor Properties for sensors that produce more than one measurement or where data is displayed in different units; for example velocity and acceleration with a Distance Sensor.
   

• The Timing Wizard is used to take direct measurements of time, velocity or acceleration with one or two Photogate Sensors and is essential for conducting collision experiments.
   

• Predicting Tool allows students to plot predictions of experiment results and compare this to the actual data as it is plotted in real-time.
   

• Excel Export/Import Feature is MultiLab’s sophisticated lab reporting tool for displaying recorded data in Excel.

• Record Your Own Experiment (data & video) with a standard webcam to document your experiment and create video lab reports.
   
• Multimedia Lab Reports can be easily created by importing graphs and tables from MultiLab into Office applications like Word and PowerPoint.
   
• Video Motion Analyzer converts any motion movie into position data and applies MultiLab’s advanced math functions to analyze the motion.

Video Experiments

Fourier’s experiment library in MultiLab contains over 20 pre-recorded video experiments that serve as an instructional setup guide for both students and teachers. These experiments also contain synchronized data and video streams  which can be used for review either before or after conducting their own experiments. MultiLab’s video experiment library also provides an alternative to performing dangerous, costly or time-consuming experiments. When writing the lab reports, students can use data from their own experiment or use MultiLab’s video data to revise and clarify points from the experiment.

MultiLab’s video library is a proven and useful resource in teacher training and in demonstrating setup and procedures, helping them to better plan objectives and visualize guided class experiments.

MultiLab Workbook Tool

MultiLab’s Workbook Tool contains a library of experiment guides that gives students a step-by-step preview of the lab activity to be conducted. All parameters for each included experiment are pre-set in MultiLab making data collection  a click away.

Teachers can add their own experiments to the MultiLab software and pre-configure settings accordingly, thus saving valuable classroom instruction time and resources.

Video Motion Analyzer

MultiLab’s Video Motion Analyzer is a great tool for measuring true motion parameters such as position, velocity and acceleration, which cannot normally be measured via sensors.  Science experiments that can be analyzed include: motion (including investigations in dynamics trolleys), acceleration & decceleration, free fall, motion of a ball and simple
harmonic motion.

• Capture position and time from video movies
• Convert movies into data sets
• Analyze data with MultiLab’s analysis tools
• Capture single-body motion or two-body motion

Scan the movie from a known dimension such as the height of a basketball hoop. The motion is plotted by simply clicking the mouse on the object as it moves frame-by-frame through the movie. For longer videos or particularly high numbers of frames per second, there is also the option to step through a number of frames at one time. The motion of  two bodies can be analyzed by using the left mouse button for one object and the right button for the other and the coordinate axes can be rotated if required.

Having captured the motion, all the tools within the MultiLab are then available to analyze the video.  Thus position, velocity and acceleration can all be directly measured from a digital video clip without the use of a data logger or external sensors!

Video clips can be recorded directly from within the software and in addition, QuickTime and AVI videos can be imported.