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Video analysis using mobile phone and logger pro...
As a sequel to my last blog post, this one goes to the benefits of another tool in the mobile phones that can be used as a wonderful aid to reinforce physics concepts and get some good Physics labs . A simple video of a motion and then inserting it into logger pro and going for a video analysis.
Recently my DP students have been learning projectile motion. When it comes to this topic they are always excited as the first thing that they can relate to with this is kicking a football. How desperate they become to test the theory on the field. But till now I was not using any strong mechanism to test this theory on the field as motion sensors were not fit for this.
This time we just had an exciting physics class on the field when all the students got a chance to give a football shot. The shot was recorded on their mobile phone and an analysis of the video on logger pro revealed the height of the shot, the range , the initial velocity of the kick and the angle of kick. When they analyzed the motion at different points then their concepts about projectile motion got strengthened. They were amazed to see how the horizontal component of the velocity remained the same throughout.
Analyzing a motion using this feature has actually provoked their thought process and now I can see lot of innovative ideas coming up , especially in design labs. Moreover they can just think out of the box now as analyzing any kind of motion has become so easy.
Waiting to see what wonderful ideas come up next from them.
Recently my DP students have been learning projectile motion. When it comes to this topic they are always excited as the first thing that they can relate to with this is kicking a football. How desperate they become to test the theory on the field. But till now I was not using any strong mechanism to test this theory on the field as motion sensors were not fit for this.
Analyzing a motion using this feature has actually provoked their thought process and now I can see lot of innovative ideas coming up , especially in design labs. Moreover they can just think out of the box now as analyzing any kind of motion has become so easy.Waiting to see what wonderful ideas come up next from them.
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