Shear Modulus Determination Using the Smartphone in a Torsion Pendulum

Implementing smartphones with their internal sensors into physics experiments represents a modern, attractive, and authentic approach to improve students’ conceptual understanding of physics. In such experiments, often serve as objects physical properties digital measurement devices record, display, analyze quantities the angular velocity, linear acceleration, magnetic flux, sound pressures, light intensity, etc. For example, MEMS accelerometer gyroscope are utilized study dependence radial acceleration on velocity in circular motions oscillation periods or due gravity via different pendulum setups.