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Re: Newton's Second Law Lab



At 8:13 PM -0400 7/4/00, Bob Sciamanda, you wrote about: Newton's
Second Law Lab:


is the accelerometer directly measuring a kinematical quantity, or a
dynamical quantity?


dynamical, it is a piezoelectric strain gauge with a small cantilevered mass.


Is this a serious pedagogical problem?



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