{"id":5708,"date":"2011-07-06T18:07:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/06\/this-is-all-for-science\/"},"modified":"2011-07-06T18:07:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:07:27","slug":"this-is-all-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/06\/this-is-all-for-science\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is All For Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Links Dump came late because I was at the meeting of the APS’s Committee on Informing the Public. We apologize for the inconvenience, but I was too busy acquiring this critically important scientific data:<\/p>\n

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What is that, you ask? It’s this:<\/p>\n

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That’s the Superman roller coaster at the Six Flags America park outside of DC, which is where we’re meeting this time. Lots of amusement parks do Physics Days as outreach programs, so we did the Physics Day thing ourselves, wearing ugly blue vests holding accelerometers on the major rides. Of course, the vest-mounted accelerometer I<\/em> was wearing had its battery die, wiping the data I collected, but that’s why I have an accelerometer app on my phone, now…<\/p>\n

As you can see, the accelerometer really needed to be tared (I’m not sure how to do that), as it recorded 10 m\/s\/s acceleration when it was standing still, but on the bright side, this does allow you to clearly sort out the initial drop from the rest of the data, so that’s cool.<\/p>\n

I have x, y, and z-coordinate data, and sample data from someone else’s accelerometers, so I’ll eventually try to match these up, and do some more analysis. For now, though, I’ll settle for a little bit of gloating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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