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Low-cost accelerometers for physics experiments

Maurizio Vannoni1 and Samuele Straulino2

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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.


PACS

06.30.Gv Velocity, acceleration, and rotation

01.30.lb Undergraduate schools

07.05.Hd Data acquisition: hardware and software

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Education and communication

Dates

Issue 5 (September 2007)

Received 23 April 2007, in final form 11 June 2007

Published 6 July 2007



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