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Tracker was used to analyze three points at different radii on a rotating turntable. Directions and magnitudes of the velocity and acceleration vectors were plainly visible to students. Plots of the x-components of displacement, velocity and acceleration were sinusoidal and clearly showed that the maximum velocity occured at the minimum displacement and the maximum acceleration at the maximum displacement.

Physics Education: Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 15-17

https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9120/47/1/F06

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Classical Mechanics - Motion in Two Dimensions = 2D Acceleration = 2D Velocity = Position & Displacement	- Lower Undergraduate - Middle School - High School - Informal Education	- Instructional Material = Activity - Reference Material = Article

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