Angular momentum

• Autores: Asif Shakur, Taylor Sinatra
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 51, Nº. 9, 2013, págs. 564-565
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The gyroscope in a smartphone was employed in a physics laboratory setting to verify the conservation of angular momentum and the nonconservation of rotational kinetic energy. As is well-known, smartphones are ubiquitous on college campuses. These devices have a panoply of built-in sensors. This creates a unique opportunity for a new paradigm in the physics laboratory. 1�3 Many traditional physics experiments can now be performed very conveniently in a pedagogically enlightening environment while simultaneously reducing the laboratory budget substantially by using student-owned smartphones.