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Claudia Sánchez
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If is possible, someone could help me with the search of the ecuations or functions for velocity and acceleration or tell me their location on the source code of Tracker, because I have spent lots of hours searching and I couldn't  find them. Any Help will be very appreciated.
(I speak Spanish, so I am sorry for any errors on my English)


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Douglas Brown
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You can find the algorithms used for both the velocity and acceleration by right-clicking any plot in Tracker and choosing Algorithms... from the popup menu. Doug



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Claudia Sánchez
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thank you very much, I will try it.



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Douglas Brown
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You can also find more information in Tracker Help. See Point Mass or just search Tracker Help for "algorithms". Doug



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