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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