The good news is that the ME department does have 2 accelerometers. After checking the spec sheets these seem as if they will be acceptable for our experiement, but not optimal. Hopefully we will be able to find an accelerometer with a lower frequency range. Maybe Dr. Jordan's accelerometers can serve this purpose.
I will set up a 'small' experiement to determine if these accelerometers will meet our purposes for the 'big' experiment. This will need to be conducted this semester. I do not believe that our 'small' experiment will require the use of the actuator.
David will be able to install LabView on a personal laptop (Tiffany's), but he has to remove it after our experiment is complete.
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We use the 3-axis accelerometers from Vernier (www.vernier.com). They are rated for +/-5g, but they are very good in the milli-g range. They were created from the air bag technology and are very sensitive. They have a silicon reed which changes the capacitance in a a small printed circuit. All is contained in a 1" cube. They require an interface (ULI) and of course a laptop for data acquisition. We may have one or more accelerometers. We definitely have ULIs.
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