O estudo do movimento browniano com material de baixo custo

Abstract

The study of Brownian motion is seen in modern physics disciplines of undergraduate courses in physics, following a theoretical or laboratory approach, in this case usually involving reasonably sophisticated equipment. This work describes a proposal for the implementation of the experiment in high school, designed and developed by students of the last semester of the night course of licentiate in Physics of the Federal University of Para, as part of the activities of a discipline of Statistical Physics. The ease of assembly of the experiment, combined with the use of computational technologies to analyze the results, makes the technique easily implemented in high school, enabling the student to discuss historical aspects of the development of atomic models, as well as to perform the experimental measurement of the number of Avogrado, usually seen in Chemistry, in a mechanized way.