Recent content by Richard Ayers

mfb : Thank you, its good to get another opinion that I haven't missed the obvious :-) My time frame for integrating values is quite short, in some weather this will be less than the wave period so I will be measuring mass with acceleration only in 1 direction, meaning I can't use the up/down...

Hi, I have seed of a project forming but need some help with some physics in it : What I'm trying to do : I need to weigh a sample using a load cell, so far so good, but the load cell is on a moving platform, a ship. I think I know that if the object being weighed and the load cell were moving...

Hi everyone, I'm a marine biologist by trade but have come across an issue that has physics hiding in it somewhere, my physics knowledge is bad to say the least so figured it was time to ask some experts, which I'll be doing in the right forum shortly :-)