Locating a smartphone's accelerometer

Sidney Mau, Francesco Insulla, Elliot E. Pickens, Zihao Ding, Scott C. Dudley

The Physics Teacher · 2016 · 15 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

While prior papers in this column addressed aspects of radial acceleration using smartphones, this paper describes a technique to locate the accelerometer in the phone to within a couple millimeters.

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