written by Anne Cox

The Projectile Motion with Angry Birds lab uses the Tracker video analysis tool to measure and analyze the motion an angry bird projected from a slingshot to hit a pig.

The zip file contains the lab handout, a video, and the Tracker file.

Credits: The original video came from Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hjAY0XpvE. This exercise was inspired by Rhett Allain's Dot Physics, a physics blog for Wired.

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

• Download AngryBirdsProjectileMotion.zip - 2027kb Tracker Document Set

Last Modified January 23, 2012

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The Angry Birds Projectile Motion lab provides instructions for students to analyze the projectile motion of a bird in the game Angry Birds.

• Download Angry_Birds_Projectile_Motion.pdf - 280kb Adobe PDF Document

Published November 20, 2011
Last Modified November 22, 2011

This file is included in the full-text index.

Rhett Allain invited talk
Winter 2012 AAPT Meeting

Everyone loves Angry Birds (the game). Why not use this popular game as a topic for exploration in introductory physics? Why are games like Angry Birds so nice for analysis? In this presentation, I will discuss the physics of Angry Birds and video games in general. I will also briefly discuss them advantages of using a blog to supplement introductory physics courses.

http://bit.ly/ABphysics

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Last Modified February 7, 2012