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The Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool allows students to model and analyze the motion of objects in videos. Objects can be tracked manually with the mouse or automatically with the built-in autotracker.  Simple dynamical models can be built and overlaid directly onto videos, enabling students to see directly how well the model matches the real world. Interference patterns and spectra can also be analyzed with Tracker.

Tracker installers are available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and include a Java runtime and Xuggle video engine.
Tracker is an Open Source Physics tool built on the OSP code library. Additional Tracker resources, demonstration experiments, and videos, can be found by searching ComPADRE for "Tracker."

Additional Tracker resources including Tracker help and sample videos are available from the Tracker home page (link below).
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Douglas Brown, Wolfgang Christian, Robert M Hanson
PACSs:
01.50.hv
01.50.Lc
Keywords:
force, interference, kinematics, mechanics, modeling, motion, oscillation, osp, spectra, spectroscopy, video analysis
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Metadata instance created June 4, 2008 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:
October 5, 2023 by Douglas Brown
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Author: Wolfgang
Posted: February 16, 2021 at 8:32AM
Source: The Open Source Physics collection

Please post questions about Tracker in the Tracker Discussion forum, not in the item comments.

https://www.compadre.org/osp/bulletinboard/ForumDetails.cfm?FID=57

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D. Brown, R. Hanson, and W. Christian, Computer Program TRACKER VIDEO ANALYSIS AND MODELING TOOL, Version 6.1.5 (2023), WWW Document, (https://physlets.org/tracker/).
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D. Brown, R. Hanson, and W. Christian, Computer Program TRACKER VIDEO ANALYSIS AND MODELING TOOL, Version 6.1.5 (2023), <https://physlets.org/tracker/>.
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Brown, D., Hanson, R., & Christian, W. (2023). Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool (Version 6.1.5) [Computer software]. Retrieved March 19, 2024, from https://physlets.org/tracker/
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Brown, D, R. Hanson, and W. Christian. "Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool." Version 6.1.5. https://physlets.org/tracker/ (accessed 19 March 2024).
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Brown, Douglas, Robert Hanson, and Wolfgang Christian. Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool. Vers. 6.1.5. Computer software. 2023. 19 Mar. 2024 <https://physlets.org/tracker/>.
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Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool:

Is the Basis For Tracker Video Analysis Demo Package

The Tracker Demo Package was created by the Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool.

relation by Mario Belloni
Is the Basis For OSP User's Guide Chapter 16: Tracker

OSP User's Guide Chapter 16: Tracker is based in the Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool.

relation by Mario Belloni
Is Referenced By Video Modeling: Combining Dynamic Model Simulations with Traditional Video Analysis

This article describes how Tracker is used to overlay dynamical models on the the video.

relation by Wolfgang Christian
Is Referenced By Innovative Uses of Video Analysis

The paper Innovative Uses of Video Analysis describes Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool.

relation by Anne Cox

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