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[mailto:PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU]On Behalf Of Mark Sylvester
I have some reservations about the MBL experiments for Newton's second law,
and wonder if they are shared.
Minor reservation: I don't like using a force sensor already calibrated in
newtons when we want to show the second law.
Bigger reservation: I don't like using an accelerometer which works by
inertia for this experiment. If we treat the sensors strictly as black boxes
this may be OK, but I like the students to have some idea of what the sensor
does.