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In a Star Wars VII trailer, we see a stormtrooper flung into the air from an explosion. The motion of the stormtrooper will provide information about the planet on which the scene occurs. The supplemental documents folder contains a Tracker experiment file with the video analysis of the stormtrooper's motion as described in the Wired magazine Dot Physics blog. The goal of the analysis is to estimate the stormtrooper's acceleration.
2 supplemental documents are available
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Classical Mechanics
- Motion in Two Dimensions
= 2D Acceleration
= 2D Velocity
= Position & Displacement
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Informal Education
- Instructional Material
= Activity
- Reference Material
= Article
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
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- Conceptual Physics
- Algebra-based Physics
- AP Physics
- Activity
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movie analysis, star wars, tracker, video analysis
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R. Allain, Computer Program STORMTROOPER EXPLOSION (2015), WWW Document, (https://www.wired.com/2015/05/video-analysis-exploding-stormtrooper/).
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Allain, R. (2015). Stormtrooper Explosion [Computer software]. Retrieved December 12, 2024, from https://www.wired.com/2015/05/video-analysis-exploding-stormtrooper/
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