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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 trz file contains the Wall of Death blog entry, a video of a car riding the wall, and a Tracker tab file. A discussion of the physics for a car on the wall is posted on the Dot Physics blog for Wired.  A second blog entry describes the physics of a motorcycle on the wall..
Series Name:  Wired Dot Physics Blog
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Published: April 24, 2012
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Classical Mechanics
- General
- Motion in Two Dimensions
= Central Forces
- Rotational Dynamics
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- Upper Undergraduate
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This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
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Rhett Allain
Keywords:
video analysis, video lab
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created April 24, 2012 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:
April 30, 2023 by Douglas Brown
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April 24, 2012
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R. Allain, , Wired Dot Physics Blog, 2012, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11825&DocID=2674).
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R. Allain, Tracker Video Analysis: Wall of Death, Wired Dot Physics Blog, 2012, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11825&DocID=2674>.
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Allain, R. (2012). Tracker Video Analysis: Wall of Death. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11825&DocID=2674
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Allain, Rhett J.. "Tracker Video Analysis: Wall of Death." In Wired Dot Physics Blog. 2012. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11825&DocID=2674 (accessed 1 May 2025).
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Allain, Rhett J.. Tracker Video Analysis: Wall of Death. 2012. 1 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11825&DocID=2674>.
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