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  2. Tiltmeter - Wikipedia

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    Volcano and Earth movement monitoring then used the water-tube, long baseline tiltmeter. [2] In 1919, the physicist, Albert A. Michelson , noted that the most favorable arrangement to obtain high sensitivity and immunity from temperature perturbations is to use the equipotential surface defined by water in a buried half-filled water pipe. [ 3 ]

  3. Inclinometer - Wikipedia

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    An inclinometer sensor's true or absolute accuracy (which is the combined total error), however, is a combination of initial sets of sensor zero offset and sensitivity, sensor linearity, hysteresis, repeatability, and the temperature drifts of zero and sensitivity—electronic inclinometers accuracy can typically range from ±0.01–2 ...

  4. Gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    Reaction arrows about the output axis (blue) correspond to forces applied about the input axis (green), and vice versa. A gyroscope is an instrument, consisting of a wheel mounted into two or three gimbals providing pivoted supports, for allowing the wheel to rotate about a single axis.

  5. List of measuring instruments - Wikipedia

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    osmotic strength of a solution, colloid, or compound matter of an object parking meter: collects moneys for vehicle parking rights in a zone for a limited time pedometer: steps pH meter: pH (chemical acidity/basicity of a solution) photometer: illuminance or irradiance planometer: area polarimeter: rotation of polarized light potentiometer

  6. Plumb bob - Wikipedia

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    Plumb bob with scale as an inclinometer Plumb bob with string in masonry work. A plumb bob and line alone can determine only a vertical reference. However, if they are mounted on a suitable scale the instrument may also be used as an inclinometer to measure angles to the vertical.

  7. Liquid capacitive inclinometers - Wikipedia

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    Liquid capacitive inclinometers are inclinometers (or clinometers) whose sensing elements are made with a liquid-filled differential capacitor; they sense the local direction of acceleration due to gravity (or movement). [1] A capacitive inclinometer has a disc-like cavity that is partly filled with a dielectric liquid.

  8. Euler's Disk - Wikipedia

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    The physics of a spinning coin (April 20, 2000) PhysicsWeb; Experimental and theoretical investigation of the energy dissipation of a rolling disk during its final stage of motion (December 12, 2008) Arch Appl Mech; Comment on Moffat’s Disk (March 31, 2002) "Euler's Disk". Real World Physics Problems. real-world-physics-problems.com

  9. Gyrocompass - Wikipedia

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    Cutaway of an Anschütz gyrocompass A gyrocompass repeater. A gyrocompass is a type of non-magnetic compass which is based on a fast-spinning disc and the rotation of the Earth (or another planetary body if used elsewhere in the universe) to find geographical direction automatically.