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Motion Detector and Student
M-c1d



An ultrasonic motion detector generates a real-time graph of displacement (and/or veloctiy and/or acceleration) versus time as a person walks back and forth in front of the detector.


Fishbane Chapter:   2.1
HRW 9th:   2.04
Reese Chapter:   3.2
RHK 5th:   2.4
PIRA DCS classification:   1C10.05

Physics Lecture Demonstrations at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University