A mechanical model of the smartphone's accelerometer

TL;DR

This paper presents a mechanical model of the smartphone's accelerometer designed for educational purposes, enabling students to understand its working principle through hands-on classroom experiments.

Contribution

The paper introduces a tangible mechanical model of the smartphone accelerometer to facilitate physics education and improve student comprehension.

Findings

Model effectively demonstrates accelerometer principles

Enhances student engagement in physics experiments

Accessible for classroom use

Abstract

To increase the attention of students, several physics experiments can be performed at school, as well at home, by using the smartphone as laboratory tools. In the paper we describe a mechanical model of the smartphone's accelerometer, which can be used in classroom to allow students to better understand the principle of the accelerometer even by students at the beginning of the study in physics.