{"id":2911,"date":"2013-09-20T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T22:51:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"2911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/2911","title":{"rendered":"Where is the accelerometer located inside the LabQuest 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To use the internal sensors on the LabQuest 2 to make rotational physics measurements, it&#8217;s important to know where the accelerometer itself is located inside the unit.<\/p>\n<p>If the unit is face up the sensor is located 72mm from the docking connector and 32mm from the digital port side of the plastic case.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively the students can find its location experimentally by following a protocol similar to<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dotphysics\/2010\/04\/27\/where-is-the-accelerometer-in\/\">http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dotphysics\/2010\/04\/27\/where-is-the-accelerometer-in\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and either use a photogate with a small flag or video analysis to get the rotational velocity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/2911-LABQ2_accel.jpg\" class=\"border\" alt=\"2911-LABQ2_accel.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Related:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/3037\/\">Where is the accelerometer located inside the WDSS?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To use the internal sensors on the LabQuest 2 to make rotational physics measurements, it&#8217;s important to know where the accelerometer itself is located inside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[580,4530,2953,2464],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-accelerometer","tag-internal-sensors","tag-labquest-2","tag-lq2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}