The Activity Based Physics High School e‑dition (ABP-E) is a special pre-college edition of physics curricula from the Wiley Physics Suite, including selected units from RealTime Physics, Workshop Physics, and Interactive Lecture Demonstrations. Usually a purchaser becomes aware of this product when attending a workshop or seminar led by one of the authors of the material.
While the student-facing written materials do not make explicit reference to particular data collection software titles, there are accompanying setup, or experiment, files that configure the data collection software for the particular task. For example, a given lesson may instruct the student to open a particular file, and then make use of that particular file’s configuration in the data collection software.
All of the setup files included with the Activity Based Physics High School e-dition are for Logger Pro software, and not for Graphical Analysis.
Logger Pro is legacy software that is no longer under development. It runs only on macOS and Windows. Logger Pro is only compatible with wired LabQuest sensors; in particular it is not compatible with Go Direct (GDX) sensors.
As a result, if you
- are using a platform other than macOS or Windows,
- use Go Direct sensors, or
- simply prefer to use Graphical Analysis software instead of Logger Pro,
you will find the Activity Based Physics material is difficult to use, as there are no setup files for Graphical Analysis.
Purchase Activity Based Physics only if you are aware of the use intentions of this material.