Tracker Video Analysis

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written by Douglas Brown

This web page contains a free video software tool to perform kinematic analysis of experiments captured in short video clips. Its features include position, velocity, and acceleration tracking, multiple reference frames, and model analysis. Students can analyze the motion of objects in a video and overlay simple dynamical models on the video to see how well the model matches the real world. Advanced students can also analyze spectra and interference patterns. A detailed "help" section is available to users who are newcomers to video analysis software. This is an open source program, part of the Open Source Physics project.

Please note that this resource requires Java, or Quicktime.

https://physlets.org/tracker/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Motion in One Dimension - Motion in Two Dimensions General Physics - Measurement/Units Oscillations & Waves - Wave Motion = Transverse Pulses and Waves	- High School - Lower Undergraduate - Upper Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Activity = Curriculum support = Laboratory

Appropriate Courses	Categories	Ratings
- Physical Science - Physics First - Conceptual Physics - Algebra-based Physics - AP Physics	- Activity - Laboratory - New teachers	Currently 5.0/5 Rated 5.0 stars by 1 person Want to rate this material? Login here!

Intended Users:: Educator
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Formats:: application/java
text/html
video/quicktime
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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Douglas Brown
Keywords:: spectrum analysis, video analysis
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created October 1, 2004 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated:: November 20, 2015 by Bruce Mason
Other Collections:: The PSRC

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This resource is part of 2 Physics Front Topical Units.

Topic: Wave Energy
Unit Title: Teaching About Waves and Wave Energy

If you have not yet used video analysis software with your students, be prepared for a paradigm shift in your teaching! This resource provides free software called "Tracker", developed to help students closely analyze the motion of objects in a short video clip. It also allows them to create dynamical models that overlay the video to see how well the model matches the real world. Detailed instructions are provided. And it's free.

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Topic: Wave Energy
Unit Title: Types of Mechanical Waves

This is a free video software tool for analyzing the motion captured in short video clips. Its features include position, velocity, and acceleration tracking, multiple reference frames, and model analysis. Students can analyze the motion of objects in a video and overlay simple dynamical models on the video to see how well the model matches the real world. A detailed "help" section is available to users who are newcomers to video analysis software.

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/precollege/items/detail.cfm?ID=1970">Brown, Douglas. Tracker Video Analysis. 2004.</a>

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D. Brown, (2004), WWW Document, (https://physlets.org/tracker/).

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D. Brown, Tracker Video Analysis (2004), <https://physlets.org/tracker/>.

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Brown, D. (2004). Tracker Video Analysis. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from https://physlets.org/tracker/

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Brown, Douglas. Tracker Video Analysis. 2004. https://physlets.org/tracker/ (accessed 11 October 2024).

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Brown, Douglas. Tracker Video Analysis. 2004. 11 Oct. 2024 <https://physlets.org/tracker/>.

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@misc{ Author = "Douglas Brown", Title = {Tracker Video Analysis}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {11 October 2024}, Year = {2004} }

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