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Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-03 Cached

A physics education paper showing how 3D trajectories of roller coasters and pendulum-ship rides can be reconstructed from smartphone accelerometer and gyroscope data using quaternion-based orientation integration with drift correction, enabling Newtonian mechanics and energy analysis for teaching.

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