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Tracker Video Analysis: Wall of Death
written by
Rhett J. Allain
Can a vehicle can ride around the inside vertical wall of a cylinder? The video analysis in this item explore the physics behind the Wall of Death. The zip file contains the Wall of Death blog entry, a video of a car riding the wall, and a Tracker video analysis file. A discussion of the physics for a car on the wall was posted on the Dot Physics blog for Wired. A second blog entry describes the physics of a motorcycle on the wall..
To open the Tracker file, download and run Tracker from http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/. Tracker is free.
Published April 24, 2012
Last Modified April 24, 2012
Wall of Death Tracker Package
Wall of Death video clip and Tracker files.
Last Modified April 24, 2012
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