Another short vignette from a very delightful physics, engineering, and technology series by Hammack of UIUC Chemical Engineering. This four-minute clip shows a cellphone teardown followed by animations describing the functions of the differential capacitors etched in silicon that form a tiny inexpensive cellphone accelerometer. Submitted to OPHUN-L by Tom Kenyon of CRCS Mathematics/Physics
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