Tracker Video Analysis: Remote Control Helicopter

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How much can a remote control helicopter lift? The video analysis in this item explores the physics behind a toy helicopter. The zip file contains the Dot Physics blog entry, a video of the flying helicopter, and a Tracker video analysis file. A discussion of helicopter physics was posted on the Dot 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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Published: April 24, 2012

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Remote Control Helicopter Tracker Package
Remote Control Helicopter video clip and Tracker files.
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Last Modified: April 25, 2012
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Motion in One Dimension = Acceleration = Gravitational Acceleration = Position & Displacement = Velocity - Motion in Two Dimensions = 2D Acceleration = 2D Velocity = Position & Displacement - Newton's Second Law = Force, Acceleration Education Practices - Active Learning = Modeling	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Informal Education - Upper Undergraduate	- 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:: Rhett Allain
Keywords:: video analysis, video lab
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 24, 2012 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: April 30, 2012 by Wolfgang Christian
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 24, 2012
Other Collections:: The Open Source Physics

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