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Sliding down the Subway: Inclined Plane Documents

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Main Document

Sliding down the Subway: Inclined Plane 

written by Anne Cox

The Sliding down the Subway exercise is a video analysis of a person sliding down a slide installed over a set of stairs in a subway (as part of the VW Fast Lane Series).
The zip file contains the video, instructions and the Tracker file.

Credits: The original video came from Volkswagen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4o0ZVeixYU.

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

Last Modified January 31, 2012

Supplemental Documents

Sliding down the Subway Activity 

Sliding down the Subway Activity is a series of questions for students to answer using the video analysis of the motion of a person down a slide.

Published January 31, 2012
Last Modified January 31, 2012

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