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Locating a Smartphone's Accelerometer
Mau, Sidney; Insulla, Francesco; Pickens, Elliot E.; Ding, Zihao; Dudley, Scott C.
Physics Teacher, v54 n4 p246-247 Apr 2016
While prior papers in this column addressed aspects of radial acceleration using smartphones, this paper describes a technique to locate the accelerometer in the phone to within a couple millimeters.
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Acceleration (Education), Science Instruction, Science Education
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