I’m going to be at an amusement park tomorrow, for a meeting of the APS’s Committee on Informing the Public, which oversees the APS outreach program. Why an amusement park? Because a common outreach-type program is to do a Physics Day at an amusement park and talk about the physics of roller coasters and the like. And why should we miss out on all that fun?<\/strike> we have a responsibility to make sure that the physics content of these programs is sound.<\/p>\n
As part of this, I’ll be going on a bunch of rides– for SCIENCE, mind you– and it occurs to me that while the park or the APS may supply some sort of accelerometer-type device for this, I’m carrying a smartphone these days, so I could in principle do my own data recording. and somebody must<\/em> have written a smartphone app to record physics-y things like this…<\/p>\n So,<\/p>\n What physics-type app should I be looking to install on my Droid X prior to riding the rides tomorrow?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If a satisfactory app exists, you may get cool graphs later this week (obviously, some sort of data export function would be a plus). If no such app exists, you have just under 24 hours to write one and get it on the Android Market…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m going to be at an amusement park tomorrow, for a meeting of the APS’s Committee on Informing the Public, which oversees the APS outreach program. Why an amusement park? Because a common outreach-type program is to do a Physics Day at an amusement park and talk about the physics of roller coasters and the… Continue reading Physics Android Apps?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,7,11,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n