What is acceleration?Before you can understand accelerometers, you really need to understand acceleration—so let's have a quick recap. If you have a car that accelerates from a standstill to a speed (or, strictly speaking, velocity) of 100km/h in 5 seconds, the acceleration is the change...
How to Determine the Motion of a Charged Particle Between Parallel Plates Step 1: Determine the direction of the particles' acceleration. Step 2: Determine the magnitude of the acceleration of the particle with the equation a=VQdm. Step 3: Describe the motion in terms of the...
An important part of measuring and describing speed is the direction of motion. After calculating speed, which is called a scalar quantity, we then ask where the object was traveling with that speed: north, south, up, away, etc. When we add direction to the quantity of speed it becomes v...
as discussed in Halliday and Resnick's "Fundamentals of Physics." Equivalently, you perform vector addition. Graphically, this means maintaining the angle of the vectors as you move them into position as a chain, one touching its head to the tail...
Never use the max pressure rating on the sidewall to determine how much air to put into your tires. Instead, use the manufacturer's recommended information provided on the placard that's often found in the driver's door jamb of your car or in the owner's manual. Depending on the vehicle...
Kerstin is a researcher in sports psychology and wants to investigate potential strategies strikers and goalkeepers use during penalty shootouts in football (Wood & Wilson,2010; Timmis, Turner, & Van Paridon,2014). She envisions using the eye tracker to determine, for example, whether the stri...
For proper operation, drones usually use accelerometers to determine the direction of gravity. In a new study published in Nature on October 19, 2022, a team of scientists from Delft University of Technology, the CNRS and ...
motion states that the rate of change of momentum of a body is directly proportional to the net external force acting on it and it takes place in the direction of the net external force.When SI units are used, the proportionality constant k is 1 .HenceThus force = mass acceleration (...
to prevent any growth problems.Artificial gravity, produced by a mechanical centrifuge, helps solve this problem. Experiments that control the amount and duration of artificial gravity help researchers determine how much gravity affects the direction of root growth. Luckily, themoonandMarsboth have ...
The mode participation factor (MPF) is used to determine which modes and natural frequencies are the most important for your design. The mode shape {Φi}, mass matrix M, and excitation direction vector D are related by Equation 31solving for MPF. The square of the participation factor is th...