APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
November 2019

Education Prize Logo
Science SPORE Prize
November 2011

NSF Logo
The Open Source Physics Project is supported by NSF DUE-0442581.

Computer Program Detail Page

Item Picture
Tracking the Coriolis Force
written by Anne Cox
Tracking the Coriolis Force uses the Tracker video analysis tool to model the motion of a  ball rolling with constant velocity on a rotating merry-go-round. Video includes the motion of the ball as viewed from the rotating reference frame of the merry-go-round.  Using the Coriolis force equation, students build a model of the motion.

The trz file contains the activity handout, video and Tracker tab file. The video comes from YouTube and can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAX3ALdienQ.

A talk about this activity from the AAPT Winter Meeting 2013 can be found at http://tinyurl.com/trackerCoriolis.
1 supplemental document is available
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Classical Mechanics
- Relative Motion
= Coriolis Effect
Education Practices
- Active Learning
= Modeling
- Upper Undergraduate
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Laboratory
= Tutorial
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- Educators
- application/pdf
- application/zip
- video/quicktime
  • Currently 0.0/5

Want to rate this material?
Login here!


Access Rights:
Free access
License:
This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:
Anne J Cox
Keywords:
coriolis, inertial reference frame, tracker, video analysis, video lab
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created June 7, 2012 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:
April 30, 2023 by Douglas Brown
Last Update
when Cataloged:
June 7, 2012
ComPADRE is beta testing Citation Styles!

Record Link
AIP Format
A. Cox, Computer Program TRACKING THE CORIOLIS FORCE (2012), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12042&DocID=2935).
AJP/PRST-PER
A. Cox, Computer Program TRACKING THE CORIOLIS FORCE (2012), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12042&DocID=2935>.
APA Format
Cox, A. (2012). Tracking the Coriolis Force [Computer software]. Retrieved December 6, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12042&DocID=2935
Chicago Format
Cox, Anne. "Tracking the Coriolis Force." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12042&DocID=2935 (accessed 6 December 2024).
MLA Format
Cox, Anne. Tracking the Coriolis Force. Computer software. 2012. 6 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12042&DocID=2935>.
BibTeX Export Format
@misc{ Author = "Anne Cox", Title = {Tracking the Coriolis Force}, Month = {June}, Year = {2012} }
Refer Export Format

%A Anne Cox %T Tracking the Coriolis Force %D June 7, 2012 %U https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12042&DocID=2935 %O application/pdf

EndNote Export Format

%0 Computer Program %A Cox, Anne %D June 7, 2012 %T Tracking the Coriolis Force %8 June 7, 2012 %U https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12042&DocID=2935


Disclaimer: ComPADRE offers citation styles as a guide only. We cannot offer interpretations about citations as this is an automated procedure. Please refer to the style manuals in the Citation Source Information area for clarifications.

Citation Source Information

The AIP Style presented is based on information from the AIP Style Manual.

The APA Style presented is based on information from APA Style.org: Electronic References.

The Chicago Style presented is based on information from Examples of Chicago-Style Documentation.

The MLA Style presented is based on information from the MLA FAQ.

This resource is stored in a shared folder.

You must login to access shared folders.

Tracking the Coriolis Force:


Know of another related resource? Login to relate this resource to it.
Save to my folders

Supplements

Contribute

Related Materials

Similar Materials

OSP Projects:
Open Source Physics - EJS Modeling
Tracker
Physlet Physics
Physlet Quantum Physics
STP Book