Measurement of rigid body inertia tensor using gyroscope sensor on a mobile phone

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  • Department of Physics,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China

Received date: 2021-02-17

  Revised date: 2021-03-30

  Online published: 2021-11-15

Abstract

By using a gyroscope sensor and phyphox software,the angular velocity curve of a free

falling mo- bile phone is recorded. Then,up to a scale constant,the inertia tensor of the

phone is determined based on the conservation of orbital angular momentum and kinetic energy

in the center-of-mass reference frame. Depending on whether vanishing off-diagonal elements is or

not assumed,two algorithms are proposed to calculate the inertia ten- sor. The results are

confirmed by substituting it into the Euler equation for recoded trajectories.

Cite this article

LOU Chen-xuan, ZHOU Jing-lin, ZHENG Xue-yao, LIU Ke-wei, LUO Dan-nan, BAI Zai-qiao . Measurement of rigid body inertia tensor using gyroscope sensor on a mobile phone[J]. College Physics, 2021 , 40(11) : 48 . DOI: 10.16854 / j.cnki.1000-0712.210079

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