APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
November 2019

Education Prize Logo
Science SPORE Prize
November 2011

NSF Logo
The Open Source Physics Project is supported by NSF DUE-0442581.

Tracker 4.85 released

Return to the Tracker forum
Login to post to this thread

Version 4.85 available now
Douglas Brown Avatar
Douglas Brown
449 Posts

Hello Tracker users,

Tracker 4.85 installers for Windows, Mac and Linux are now available from both the Tracker home page (http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/) and ComPADRE (http://www.opensourcephysics.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=7365).

New in this version:

  • display a translucent grid overlay to make the coordinate system fully visible
  • "launch" dynamic particle models from a separate point mass track
  • drag the mouse to adjust numerical values in model/data/fit builders
  • choose larger fonts for presentations or hi-res monitors
  • run Tracker directly from a USB drive

Also, please take a look at the Sharing Your Collection page on the Tracker web site for some step-by-step instructions on how to add your own Tracker experiments to the comPADRE OSP collection. I know a lot of you have developed some really great ones--let's share them :-) 

As always, thanks for your continued suggestions and feedback!  Doug



OSP Projects:
Open Source Physics - EJS Modeling
Tracker
Physlet Physics
Physlet Quantum Physics
STP Book