Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool

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The Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool allows students to model and analyze the motion of objects in videos. By overlaying simple dynamical models directly onto videos, students may see how well a model matches the real world. Interference patterns and spectra can also be analyzed with Tracker.

Tracker 4.80 installers are available on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows and include the Xuggle open source 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 at Cabrillo College below.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.6 of Java (JRE).

http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Practices - Curriculum Development = Laboratory - Instructional Material Design - Technology = Computers = Multimedia General Physics - General - Measurement/Units	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Upper Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Activity = Interactive Simulation = Laboratory = Model - Tool = Software - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Douglas Brown
PACSs:: 01.50.hv; 01.50.Lc
Keywords:: force, interference, kinematics, mechanics, modeling, motion, oscillation, osp, spectra, spectroscopy, video analysis
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 4, 2008 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:: February 26, 2013 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: February 26, 2013
Other Collections:: The Physics Source

The Open Source Physics

wmv file convertion

Author: Ricardo Barboza
Posted: October 20, 2012 at 11:08PM
Source: The Open Source Physics collection

The software, I must say it's just great! The down side is that It has some problems converting wmv files.

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Thanks a ton

Author: krishna sastri
Posted: June 23, 2010 at 6:29AM
Source: The Open Source Physics collection

Dear Dr Brown
I have developed my entire classical mechanics lab and optics lab based on your software.
it is a great success and students really enjoy it thouroughly
thank you
with love and regards
sastri

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<a href="http://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=7365">Brown, Douglas. "Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool." Version 4.80.</a>

AIP Format

D. Brown, Computer Program TRACKER VIDEO ANALYSIS AND MODELING TOOL, Version 4.80 (2009), WWW Document, (http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/).

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D. Brown, Computer Program TRACKER VIDEO ANALYSIS AND MODELING TOOL, Version 4.80 (2009), <http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/>.

APA Format

Brown, D. (2009). Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool (Version 4.80) [Computer software]. Retrieved May 24, 2013, from http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/

Chicago Format

Brown, Douglas. "Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool." Version 4.80. http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/ (accessed 24 May 2013).

MLA Format

Brown, Douglas. Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool. Vers. 4.80. Computer software. 2009. Java (JRE) 1.6. 24 May 2013 <http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/>.

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