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Tracker Video Modeling with Spreadsheets Documents

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Tracker Video Modeling with Spreadsheets 

written by Douglas Brown and Wolfgang Christian

The Tracker Video Modeling with Spreadsheets tutorial shows how to overlay spreadsheet model data on a video clip to compare theoretical predictions with the real world. The complete tutorial, including video and spreadsheet, is packaged in a single Tracker zip file "balltoss-spreadsheet.trz". Download the trz file to any computer that has Tracker installed and double click it to load the video into Tracker and open the associated Excel spreadsheet and tutorial.

Published August 2, 2016
Last Modified April 30, 2023

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Tracker Spreadsheet Modeling Tutorial 

A step-by-step tutorial that shows how to create an external model that accesses spreadsheet data using the operating system's clipboard.

Last Modified August 2, 2016

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