What is The Inertial Frame?
In Classic Mechanic Physics, Inertial frames are time independent, earth-fixed set of axes is used as an unmoving reference.
In my application, I’ve used FIS1100 MEMS Sensors that incorporates a 3-axis gyroscope and accelerometer also connected an external 3-axis magnetometer. As inertial frame where x-axis points east, y-axis points magnetic north pole and z-axis points along gravity.
Taking into account magnetic variation I had to calculate earth-fixed coordinate from inertial frames. So there are some calculation functions in javascript.
Calculation.eulerAngles = function(x, y, z) { var r = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(x, 2) + Math.pow(y, 2) + Math.pow(z, 2)); var za = Math.acos(z / r); var xa = Math.atan(y / x); if(isNaN(za)) za = 0; if(isNaN(xa)) xa = 0; return { r: r, za: za, xa: xa }; }
Here is more detail about Euler Angles.