{"id":4258,"date":"2018-09-11T20:16:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"4258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4258","title":{"rendered":"What channels should I activate to use my GDX force sensor on the GDX-CFA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-centripetal-force-system\/\">Go Direct&reg; Centripetal Force System<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-CFA<\/nobr>) requires the use of the <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-force-and-acceleration-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Force and Acceleration Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-FOR<\/nobr>) for sensor data collection. There are three primary channels that will be of use when using this sensor with the Go Direct Centripetal Force Apparatus (CFA): <\/p>\n<p>Z-axis gyro to measure angular velocity<br \/>\nX-axis acceleration to measure centripetal acceleration<br \/>\nForce to measure (well&#8230;) force<\/p>\n<p>For all experiments with the CFA angular velocity will be of interest.<\/p>\n<p>When investigating circular motion and the relationship between angular velocity, radius, and centripetal acceleration activate the X-axis acceleration and the Z-axis gyro. Be sure to align the sensor so the positive acceleration is oriented towards the center of rotation. <\/p>\n<p>When investigating forces necessary to maintain an object in a circular path, activate the force and Z-axis gyro.<\/p>\n<p>When investigating angular acceleration for different mass configurations (moments of rotational inertia) it is only necessary to activate Z-axis gyro. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/til\/4160\/\">Go Direct Centripetal Force Apparatus, Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The requires the use of the for sensor data collection. There are three primary channels that will be of use when using this sensor with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4367,530,462,7119,6988,371,1135],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-centripetal","tag-channels","tag-force","tag-force-and-accleration","tag-gdx-cfa","tag-gdx-for","tag-rotation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","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\/86433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}