{"id":3212,"date":"2018-12-12T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-01-23T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:43:45","slug":"3212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3212","title":{"rendered":"Can I use a photogate to measure the muzzle velocity from a gun or air cannon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has not been empirically tested at Vernier. But we are rather confident that a photogate should not be used for tests like this. High speed video is a much better solution that is both easier to set up and is a bit safer for the user.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend using high speed video and <a href=\"\/product\/video-analysis\/\">Vernier Video Analysis<sup>&reg;<\/sup><\/a> (<nobr>VVA-1YR<\/nobr>) if you are interested in investigating this question.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has not been empirically tested at Vernier. But we are rather confident that a photogate should not be used for tests like this. High&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5417,491,836],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gun","tag-photogate","tag-velocity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","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\/1698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}