Tracker Video Analysis: Projectile Motion with Angry Birds

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written by Anne Cox

The Projectile Motion with Angry Birds lab uses the Tracker video analysis tool to measure and analyze the motion an angry bird projected from a slingshot to hit a pig.

The zip file contains the lab handout, a video, and the Tracker file.

Credits: The original video came from Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hjAY0XpvE. This exercise was inspired by Rhett Allain's Dot Physics, a physics blog for Wired.

To open the Tracker file, download and run Tracker from http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/. Tracker is free.

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Angry Birds Projectile Motion Instructions
The Angry Birds Projectile Motion lab provides instructions for students to analyze the projectile motion of a bird in the game Angry Birds .
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Published: November 20, 2011

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Angry Bird Physics Invited Talk
Rhett Allain invited talk
Winter 2012 AAPT Meeting

Everyone loves Angry Birds (the game). Why not use this popular game as a topic for exploration in… more...
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Last Modified: February 7, 2012

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Classical Mechanics - Motion in Two Dimensions = Projectile Motion Education Practices - Active Learning = Modeling	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Laboratory = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:: Anne J Cox
Keywords:: motion tracker, video analysis, video lab
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created November 22, 2011 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:: April 20, 2012 by Wolfgang Christian
Last Update when Cataloged:: November 20, 2011
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chance to release a trk file that is for version 4.5

Author: lookang
Posted: November 26, 2011 at 11:01AM
Source: The Open Source Physics collection

chance to release a trk file that is for version 4.5 instead of the current 4.56 which is still not available here http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/

thanks!

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Re: chance to release a trk file that is for version 4.6 now

Author: lookang
Posted: Nov 28, 2011 at 8:55AM

Chance to upload a new file Angry_Birds_projectile.trk ?

I just used Tracker 4.60 and the trk file freeze at 52% while loading up "Angry_Birds_projectile.trk"

could it be a problem with the Angry_Birds_projectile.trk?

can someone try to upload the trk file?

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Angry Birds Issue Fixed

Author: Lyle
Posted: Jan 13, 2012 at 8:52PM

Hello Lookang,

Your issue has been addressed in Version 4.61 of Tracker.

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