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The Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool allows students to model and analyze the motion of objects in videos. Objects can be tracked manually with the mouse or automatically with the built-in autotracker. Simple dynamical models can be built and overlaid directly onto videos, enabling students to see directly how well the model matches the real world. Interference patterns and spectra can also be analyzed with Tracker.

Tracker installers are available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and include a Java runtime and Xuggle video engine.

Tracker 6.3.0 Windows Installer
Tracker 6.3.0 Installer for recent MacOS - Instructions
Tracker 5.4.0 Installer and Tracker 5.5.0 Upgrade for older MacOS - Instructions
Tracker 6.2.0 Linux Installer and Tracker 6.3.0 Linux Upgrade

Tracker is an Open Source Physics tool built on the OSP code library. Additional Tracker resources, demonstration experiments, and videos, can be found by searching ComPADRE for "Tracker."

Additional resources including Tracker help and sample videos are available from the Tracker home page (link below).

https://physlets.org/tracker/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Practices - Curriculum Development = Laboratory - Instructional Material Design - Technology = Computers = Multimedia General Physics - General - Measurement/Units	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Upper Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Activity = Interactive Simulation = Laboratory = Model - Tool = Software - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Learners - Educators	- application/java	Currently 4.7/5 Rated 4.7 stars by 13 people Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Douglas Brown, Wolfgang Christian, Robert M Hanson
PACSs:: 01.50.hv; 01.50.Lc
Keywords:: force, interference, kinematics, mechanics, modeling, motion, oscillation, osp, spectra, spectroscopy, video analysis
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 4, 2008 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:: February 18, 2025 by Douglas Brown
Last Update when Cataloged:: February 18, 2025
Other Collections:: The Physics Source

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Where to post questions about Tracler.

Author: Wolfgang
Posted: February 16, 2021 at 8:32AM
Source: The Open Source Physics collection

Please post questions about Tracker in the Tracker Discussion forum, not in the item comments.

https://www.compadre.org/osp/bulletinboard/ForumDetails.cfm?FID=57

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=7365">Brown, D, R. Hanson, and W. Christian. "Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool." Version 6.3.0.</a>

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D. Brown, R. Hanson, and W. Christian, Computer Program TRACKER VIDEO ANALYSIS AND MODELING TOOL, Version 6.3.0 (2025), WWW Document, (https://physlets.org/tracker/).

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D. Brown, R. Hanson, and W. Christian, Computer Program TRACKER VIDEO ANALYSIS AND MODELING TOOL, Version 6.3.0 (2025), <https://physlets.org/tracker/>.

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Brown, D., Hanson, R., & Christian, W. (2025). Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool (Version 6.3.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved March 16, 2025, from https://physlets.org/tracker/

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Brown, D, R. Hanson, and W. Christian. "Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool." Version 6.3.0. https://physlets.org/tracker/ (accessed 16 March 2025).

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Brown, Douglas, Robert Hanson, and Wolfgang Christian. Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool. Vers. 6.3.0. Computer software. 2025. 16 Mar. 2025 <https://physlets.org/tracker/>.

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