There are a million and one things that could go wrong with a car engine. In old times, it was solely up to the owner and/or technician to drudge through possible issues until they determined what was ...

Students will apply their knowledge of physical science concepts to create a lunar lander game using Scratch. They will use Vernier force and acceleration sensors to understand forces and integrate ...

Stuttgart, Germany – The BMA220 digital sensor from Bosch Sensortec is, according to the company, the smallest digital acceleration sensor in LGA housing in the world, measuring only 2 mm x 2 mm x ...

Freescale is providing advanced acceleration sensor technology to Fujitsu. Fujitsu is using them to help protect business-critical data stored on hard disks (HDDs) in mobile PCs. 3-axis accelerometers ...

This force will cause the cart to accelerate—in this case, to the left, or the opposite way it was heading, which is why it slows down during impact and even reverses direction. But what is the ...

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) inertial switches and sensors are compact devices that detect changes in motion or orientation. These sensors are increasingly being used in various ...