written by Anne Cox
content provider: Brittany Capra, Taylor Natale, and Julie Pickering

The Dolphin Jump: Projectile Motion activity uses the Tracker video analysis tool to measure and analyze the motion of a dolphin jumping out of the water.

The zip file contains the activity, a video, and the Tracker file.

Credits: The original video is posted on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_IOnjqsw1M.

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

• Download Dolphin_Jump_Projectile_Motion.zip - 2409kb Compressed File

Published June 21, 2012
Last Modified June 21, 2012

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