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Re: Feeling Acceleration


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2) I've never seen a force sensor yet that doesn't work by first measuring
acceleration.
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Is there a consensus on this list on the validity of this statement? It
has been made repeatedly before, and as far as I recall, without
challenge. I would really like to know, because if there is a consensus
in its favor, further discussion of the matter is rather pointless.


If a spring scale is a sensor then it seems to me that it measures a force
without first measuring an acceleration.

Gene
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