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Low-cost accelerometers for physics experiments

Maurizio Vannoni et al 2007 Eur. J. Phys. 28 781-787   doi: 10.1088/0143-0807/28/5/001  Help

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Maurizio Vannoni1 and Samuele Straulino2
1 CNR—Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Largo E Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica—Università di Firenze, Via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Abstract. The implementation of a modern game-console controller as a data acquisition interface for physics experiments is discussed. The investigated controller is equipped with three perpendicular accelerometers and a built-in infrared camera to evaluate its own relative position. A pendulum experiment is realized as a demonstration of the proposed approach.

Print publication: Issue 5 (September 2007)
Received 23 April 2007, in final form 11 June 2007
Published 6 July 2007

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