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    Fun with Mechanics > Accelerometer

    37. Accelerometer

    When you are in a car or bus and it accelerates or brakes, what do you feel? Build your own acceleration gauge to demonstrate situations like these and the effects of acceleration in curves.

    Supplies

    • Styrofoam ball or cork (as from a wine bottle)

    • clear glass or plastic jar with screw-on top

    • string

    • 1 pint (1/2 liter) plastic bottle with cap

    • superglue

    • epoxy putty (the kind that you can shape like clay, and that hardens)



      

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