31
Mar
 2025
Tracker self-study All Events
Event Start: 09:00
Event Finish: 17:00
The free, open-source Tracker software package, written by Doug Brown of Cabrillo College, has been a favourite of ours at SSERC for over a decade.  Tracker is many-faceted, but at its core is the ability to analyse video and still images. Students working at home could perform meaningful practical work using the application. Recently, it has become possible to run Tracker in a browser.
In this free course we will show you how to:
  • Install Tracker or run it in a browser
  • Analyse linear and rotational motion, creating graphs
  • Analyse still images, for example Newton’s Rings and a Double Slits experiment
  • Model exoplanet detection
We will supply sample videos and images though we suspect you will enjoy creating and analysing your own.
We reckon you will spend around a day, spread over several weeks if you prefer, on studying and carrying out activities. When you are finished (and before the submission date shown below), we’ll ask you to send us an example of something you’ve done.  This can be in the form or a report or video.  
Submission Deadline:

  • Course Date: 31st March 2025 

    Closing date for applications: 28th February 2025

Course Leader

Norman Bethune
01383 626070
norman.bethune@sserc.scot

Location

This is a Self-Study Course

This course is free of charge

Using the supplied resources you will be able to:

  • Install Tracker or run it in a browser
  • Analyse linear and rotational motion, creating graphs
  • Analyse still images, for example Newton’s Rings and a Double Slits experiment
  • Model exoplanet detection
  • Creating your own still images and videos.

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