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Title

Tracking the Motion of a Simple Pendulum with Tracker.

Authors

Bhakat, P.; Chakraborty, S.; Mandal, P.

Abstract

Open-source video analysis and modeling program "Tracker" is a powerful tool in physics education and classroom teaching. The application of Tracker is demonstrated in this article with a simple and well-studied problem, the simple pendulum. The motion of the pendulum is videographed using a smartphone and analysed with Tracker for different amplitudes of oscillation. The period of oscillation and phase-space trajectory of the pendulum are determined using this application and compared with results from the standard textbook theory. A first-order anharmonic coupling factor is determined from the measured frequency shift, which is found reasonable with the analytical result.

Subjects

PHYSICS education; OSCILLATIONS; PENDULUMS

Publication

Resonance: Journal of Science Education, 2024, Vol 29, Issue 8, p1085

ISSN

0971-8044

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1007/s12045-024-1085-2

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