{"id":391007,"date":"2017-03-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=91793258df0aaf132e5609c43b602e37"},"modified":"2017-03-30T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:00:00","slug":"using-touchscreens-as-position-detectors-in-physics-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=391007","title":{"rendered":"Using touchscreens as position detectors in physics experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The position of a ball was measured by using the touchscreen of a mobile phone during its rolling<br \/>\nmotion. The translational speed of the ball was determined using the recorded position and time<br \/>\ndata. The speed was also calculated by a conventional method. The speed values determined by the two<br \/>\nmethods were consistent, thus it was proven that a touchscreen could be used to detect position in<br \/>\nphysics experiments. Touchscreens of other smart mobile devices and touch tables can also be used<br \/>\nfor the same purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The position of a ball was measured by using the touchscreen of a mobile phone during its rolling<br \/>\nmotion. The translational speed of the ball was determined using the recorded position and time<br \/>\ndata. The speed was also calculated by a conventional me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}