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The dynamics of a spring pendulum is an important topic in introductory experimental physics courses at universities and advanced science courses in secondary school education. Different types of pendulum setups with smartphones were proposed to investigate, e.g., the gravitational acceleration [1, 2], to measure spring constants, or to illustrate and verify the principles of periodic motions and their characterization via oscillation periods [3–8]. In most of these experiments the smartphone with its internal MEMS sensors or the magnetometer is used as the measurement device.
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The authors are grateful for financial support received via the STIL project of the University of Leipzig (grant number 01PL16088, BMBF Germany).
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Kaps, A., Stallmach, F. (2022). Using the Smartphone as Oscillation Balance. In: Kuhn, J., Vogt, P. (eds) Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94044-7_33
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