Tracking the Coriolis Force

APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
November 2019

Science SPORE Prize
November 2011

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

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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.

download 844kb .trz
Published: June 7, 2012
previous versions

1 ready-to-run example is available

Open Coriolis Force TRZ in Tracker Online

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

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