Video Analysis with a Web Camera

Wyrembeck, Edward P.

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The Physics Teacher -- January 2009 -- Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 28

Video Analysis with a Web Camera

Edward P. Wyrembeck

Howards Grove High School, Howards Grove, WI

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Recent advances in technology have made video capture and analysis¹ in the introductory physics lab even more affordable and accessible. The purchase of a relatively inexpensive web camera is all you need if you already have a newer computer and Vernier's² Logger Pro 3 software. In addition to Logger Pro 3, other video analysis tools such as Videopoint³ and Tracker,⁴ which is freely downloadable, by Doug Brown could also be used. I purchased Logitech's⁵ QuickCam Pro 4000 web camera for $99 after Rick Sorensen⁶ at Vernier Software and Technology recommended it for computers using a Windows platform. Once I had mounted the web camera on a mobile computer with Velcro and installed the software, I was ready to capture motion video and analyze it.

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physics education, video cameras, laboratory techniques, focusing, computer software, student experiments

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Laboratory experiments and apparatus
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Secondary school
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Computers in education

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Online Dec 2008

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American Association of Physics Teachers

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Priscilla Laws and Hans Pfister, “Using digital video analysis in introductory mechanics projects,” Phys. Teach. 36, 282–287 (May 1998)PHTEAH000036000005000282000001.
Logger Pro 3 software by Vernier Software and Technology, Beaverton, OR (http://www.vernier.com).
Videopoint motion analysis software by Lenox Softworks, 114 Main St., Lenox, MA 01201 (http://www.lsw.com/videopoint/index.html).
Tracker video analysis software by Douglas Brown (http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/).
QuickCam Pro 4000 web camera and ImageStudio software by Logitech (http://www.logitech.com).
Rick Sorensen at Vernier Software and Technology, Beaverton, OR (http://www.vernier.com).
I use the Nerf SuperMaxx 750 air pressure dart gun (http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/).