{"id":4428,"date":"2019-06-11T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:48:19","slug":"4428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4428","title":{"rendered":"How do I use the Moment of Inertia Kit with the original CFA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can collect angular velocity data using the <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-force-and-acceleration-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Force and Acceleration Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-FOR<\/nobr>) attached to the beam of the <a href=\"\/product\/centripetal-force-apparatus\/\">Centripetal Force Apparatus<\/a> (<nobr>CFA<\/nobr>). However, you must use a photogate <a href=\"\/product\/photogate\/\">Photogate<\/a> (<nobr>VPG-BTD<\/nobr>) to collect angular velocity data when mounting the components of the <a href=\"\/product\/centripetal-force-apparatus-moment-of-inertia-accessory-kit\/\">Centripetal Force Apparatus Moment of Inertia Accessory Kit<\/a> (<nobr>CFA-MIK<\/nobr>).<br \/>\nThe clearance between the photogate and horizontally mounted components of the Moment of Inertia Kit require you to either:<br \/>\n1) mount the photogate without using the securing thumbscrew, or<br \/>\n2) elevate the components on the shaft by 3\/8&#8243;. This can be accomplished by adding about 4 flat washers with 1\/2&#8243; diameter holes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/til\/4358\/\">Can I use the Moment of Inertia Accessory kit with the original CFA?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can collect angular velocity data using the attached to the beam of the . However, you must use a photogate to collect angular velocity&#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":[632,5050,4367,2287,462,371,4803,491],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-angular-velocity","tag-apparatus","tag-centripetal","tag-cfa","tag-force","tag-gdx-for","tag-go-direct","tag-photogate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","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=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}