Measuring Earth's Magnetic Field Using a Smartphone Magnetometer

2018/12/13 by Hellesund, Simen
#FOS: Physical sciences #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.00857

Abstract

I use the magnetometers of a smartphone to measure the magnitude of the earth's magnetic field. A method for eliminating bias due to internal magnetic fields in the phone is proposed.

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