Educational Press for Remote Experimentation Applied in the Spring to Study Hooke＇s Law

The aim of this study is to report the use of RE (remote experimentation) in an educational press. The authors developed this remote experiment with the objective to study the Hooke’s law through the analysis of the coil spring. The remote experiment is available in a website, where the students can manipulate and observe the educational press and confirm Hooke’s statements with the output information. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to read in the website about the educational press, the physical law, and the use of the press in industrial processes. This remote experimentation exerts a force in the mechanical spring creating a deformation. In the defined point, the microcomputer will collect the data from the sensors, and it will save this data in the database. After the process execution, a graph with the data will be plotted in the website. The tests confirm that the educational press has informational potential because it returned values consistent with Hooke’s law and the experiment presented repetition in all tests realized.