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Observing Acceleration with an Accelerometer

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

Use a liquid accelerometer to observe different types of motion and classify the acceleration. Students will observe straight-line motion (constant velocity and constant acceleration), and then take their knowledge of the water’s behavior to more complex circular and pendulum motion. They will discover the centripetal (toward the center) acceleration of circular motion, and the acceleration toward equilibrium of a pendulum system.

This post was posted in Labs, Motion and was tagged with acceleration, circular motion, accelerometer, centripetal, straight-line motion

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