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Student Movies
This page contains movies made by Muskingum College Physics Majors in 1995. Thrown Back?
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Is a passenger in an accelerating car "thrown
back" by some force, or does it just seem that way? Brian
and Nikki made a movie, throw.mov (589KB),
of an accelerating toy truck and its passenger to find out. They
also made another movie, throw-d.mov
(14MB), explaining how they did it. |
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Falling Meterstick
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Brian and Brian made a movie, fall.mov
(333KB), of a falling meterstick that you can use to measure
the acceleration of gravity. Just mark the point on the computer
monitor (with a bit of tape, perhaps) where the end of the meterstick
is in the first frame, then read off the distance it falls in
each following frame. Plot these numbers versus time (each frame
is 1/30 s) and fit the graph to a parabola. They also made another
movie, fall-d.mov (9MB), describing
how they made the data movie. |
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