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  • original title: Reconstructing 3D theme park ride trajectories using smartphone odometry for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics
  • A far ride from when I was in High School and we collected the first few seconds of the first hill of a rollercoaster using a TI-83 connected to a motion sensor shoved in a fanny pack.
  • This reminds me of phyphox, a phone app where you can use pretty much all of the phone's sensors as inputs for physical experiments.

    https://phyphox.org/

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