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  Session: A Potpourri of Astronomy and Physics Topics
  Paper Type: Contributed
  Title: What Frame of Reference Is Your Smartphone Accelerometer In?
  Meeting: 2014 Winter Meeting: Orlando, Florida
  Location: N/A
  Date:
  Time: 5:00PM
  Author: Jonathan C. Hall
Pennsylvania State University - The Behrend College
8148986307, jch12@psu.edu
  Co-Author(s): None
  Abstract: Accelerometers such as found in smartphones respond to both acceleration caused by contact forces, and also to the gravitational field intensity when not accelerating. (When the device is accelerating in free-fall, the reading is zero.) The resulting measurements from the "smart" devices have been incorrectly reported as the acceleration several times in The Physics Teacher. Strategies for correcting this misunderstanding of acceleration will be discussed.
  Footnotes: None
  Presentation: accelerometer AAPT_jonathan_hall.pdf

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