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Tracker Video Analysis: Remote Control Helicopter
written by Rhett J. Allain
How much can a remote control helicopter lift?  The video analysis in this item explores the physics behind a toy helicopter.  The zip file contains the Dot Physics blog entry, a video of the flying helicopter, and a Tracker video analysis file.   A discussion of helicopter physics was posted on the Dot Physics blog for Wired.  

To open the Tracker file, download and run Tracker from http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/. Tracker is free.

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

Please note that this resource requires Xuggle.
download 207kb .pdf
Published: April 24, 2012
1 ready-to-run example is available
1 supplemental document is available
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Classical Mechanics
- Motion in One Dimension
= Acceleration
= Gravitational Acceleration
= Position & Displacement
= Velocity
- Motion in Two Dimensions
= 2D Acceleration
= 2D Velocity
= Position & Displacement
- Newton's Second Law
= Force, Acceleration
Education Practices
- Active Learning
= Modeling
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Informal Education
- Upper Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Laboratory
= Tutorial
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- Educators
- General Publics
- application/pdf
- application/java
- application/zip
- video/quicktime
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License:
This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:
Rhett Allain
Keywords:
video analysis, video lab
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created April 24, 2012 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:
April 25, 2023 by Douglas Brown
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April 24, 2012
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Allain, R. (2012). Tracker Video Analysis: Remote Control Helicopter. Retrieved December 6, 2023, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11837&DocID=2687
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Allain, Rhett J.. Tracker Video Analysis: Remote Control Helicopter. 2012. 6 Dec. 2023 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11837&DocID=2687>.
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