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Sliding Down an Inclined Plane Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Sliding Down an Inclined Plane model displays an object sliding down on an incline plane. The object can be a box, a sphere, or a car. When the object reaches the bottom of the…
Person Landing After a Jump  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This lab uses Tracker to measure and analyze the center of mass motion of a person landing after a jump. Students measure the acceleration of the person in free-fall and his…
  
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This thesis uses a number of Open Source Physics simulations to explore issues related to students’ common difficulties in learning upper-level undergraduate quantum mechanics and…
Relative Motion of Two Carts  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This lab uses Tracker video analysis software to measure and analyze the motion of two carts. Cart 1 has constant acceleration, and Cart 2 has constant velocity. Students are asked…
The Evolution of the OSP ComPADRE Collection  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, A. Cox, and T. Timberlake, Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, 17 (2011).
Over the past six years, the Open Source Physics (OSP) project has produced a collection of over 400 interactive computer-based curricular materials for the teaching of advanced…
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D. Wong, P. Sng, E. Ng, and L. Wee, Phys. Educ., 46 (2), 178 (2011).
We describe an example of learning with multiple representations in an A-level revision lesson on mechanics. The context of the problem involved the motion of a ball thrown…
  
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This lab uses Tracker video analysis software to measure and analyze the center of mass of a system of two pucks during a two-dimensional collision. Students measure the initial and…
Modeling What You See with Tracker Workshop  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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A. Cox and W. Christian, WCPE 2012 (2012).
Videos of Angry Birds, roller coasters and shark breaches are all opportunities to teach physics. In video analysis, students see physics in action as they collect kinematic data…
Hidden Function Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Hidden Function model evaluates a function f(x) with parameters. It is designed to teach function concepts by allowing a teacher to define a function, hide that function in a…
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L. Wee, C. Chew, G. Goh, S. Tan, and T. Lee, Phys. Educ., 47 (4), 9 (2012).
This article reports on the use of Tracker as a pedagogical tool in the effective learning and teaching of projectile motion in physics. When a computer model building learning…
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