R .V.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BENGALURU- 560 059

(Autonomous Institution Affiliated to VTU, Belagavi)

TITLE:DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS USING TRACKERS.

SEMINAR REPORT.

Submitted by,
Name: DHEERAJ R
Roll No 42
Section: B-2

Name: KHUSHI V
Roll No 46
Section: B-2

Submitted to, PHYSICS LECTURER

Name of teacher in-charge: AVADHANI D N
Designation: SENIOR PROFESSOR
Department of Physics
R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru-59
 CERTIFICATE

Certified that the Assignment topic “DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS USING TRACKERS” is

carried out by DHEERAJ R (Roll.NO.42),KHUSHI V(Roll.NO.46) who are Bonafide
students of R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru in partial fulfilment of the award of
seminar marks for the I semester academic year 2019-20 in Engineering Physics Course.
It is certified that all corrections/ suggestions indicated for the internal assessment have
been incorporated in the report, and a soft copy is deposited in the department library.
The seminar/assignment report has been approved as it satisfies the academic
requirement in respect of the work prescribed by the institution for the said course.

Signature of the Staff-in-charge

 DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS USING TRACKERS

Student Name-DHEERAJ R and KHUSHI.V

Affiliation-(DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, RVCE)

The Design of experiments (DOE, DOX, or experimental design) is the
design of any task that aims to describe or explain the variation of information under
conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. In its simplest form, an
experiment aims at predicting the outcome by introducing a change of the
preconditions, which is represented by one or more independent variables, also referred
to as "input variables" or "predictor variables."
Tracker is a free video analysis and modelling
tool built on the Open Source Physics (OSP) Java framework. It is designed to be used
in physics education.
Tracker video modelling is a powerful way to combine videos with computer
modelling.
Tracker features

• Manual and automated object tracking with position, velocity and acceleration
overlays and data.
• Centre of mass tracks.
• Interactive graphical vectors and vector sums.
• RGB line profiles at any angle, time-dependent RGB regions

INTRODUCTION TO TRACKERS.

In the physics teaching community, Tracker is well known as a user-friendly

open source video analysis software, authored by Douglas Brown. With this tool, the user can trace
markers indicated on a video or on stroboscopic photos and perform kinematic analyses. Tracker also
includes a data modelling tool that allows one to fit some theoretical equations of motion onto
experimentally obtained data. In the field of particle mechanics, Tracker has been effectively used for
learning and teaching about projectile motion, “toss up” and free-fall vertical motion, and to explain
the principle of mechanical energy conservation. Also, Tracker has been successfully used in rigid
body mechanics to interpret the results of experiments with rolling/slipping cylinders and moving
rods. In this work, I propose an original method in which Tracker is used to analyse virtual computer
simulations created with a physics-based motion solver, instead of analysing video recording or
stroboscopic photos. This could be an interesting approach to study kinematics and dynamics problems
in physics education, in particular when there is no or limited access to physical labs. I demonstrate
the working method with a typical (but quite challenging) problem in classical mechanics: a
slipping/rolling cylinder on a rough surface.
Literature survey

1) UNIT TRACKING

-BY- AARON TITUS

TRACKER MAUAL
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY

2) Using Tracker as a Pedagogical Tool for

Understanding Projectile Motion
SITE- (http://iwant2study.org/ospsg/index.php/interactive-
resources/physics/02-newtonian-mechanics/01-kinematics/174-projectile-motion)

-BY- Loo Kang WEE1

Charles CHEW2

Role of Physics (principle of physics used) in the topic

Tracker uses the frame and frame rate to calculate t, and it uses the scale and
coordinates of the marks to calculate x and y coordinates for the ball. It uses numerical
differentiation to calculate x-velocity and y-velocity.

Consider the object, To measure its x-position, draw a perpendicular line from the object
to the x-axis. To measure its y-position, draw a perpendicular line from the object to the
y-axis.

Position of an object depends on the origin and scale of the coordinate system.

Newton’s second law describes the relationship between the net force on an object (i.e.
system) and the object’s acceleration. ΣF = ma

The radius of the circle is R. We can calculate the object’s x and y position at any instant.
Let’s look at the object when it is at position C. The triangle showing the object, its x-
position, and its y-position is shown below.
Using this angle, the x-position and y-position can be calculated as
x = R cos(θ)
y = R sin(θ)
For an object moving in circular motion with a constant speed, the angle θ that the object
makes with the +x axis changes at a constant rate. The rate that the angle changes is
called the angular speed. To calculate angular speed, you measure how much it turns
(∆θ) and divide by the time interval.

Thus, ω = ∆θ ∆t

The x and y components of the object’s position.

If θ is the angle at any instant t and
if θ0 is the initial angle at t = 0, then
ω = θ − θ0 t
θ = ωt + θ0
Thus, the x-position and y-position of the object at the clock reading t is
x = R cos(ωt + θ0) y = R sin(ωt + θ0)
As a result, the x-motion and y-motion each resemble simple harmonic motion.
The linear speed of the object is distance traveled per second. It’s easiest to consider one
complete rotation. The distance traveled around a circle is the circumference. The time
for one revolution is the period. Thus, the linear speed of the object is |~v| = 2πR T
The angular speed during one revolution is ω = 2π/T.
Therefore, we can write the linear speed as v = ωR
where ω is in units of rad/s. It is typical to drop the magnitude symbol and vector symbol
and write the speed |~v| more simply as v.
REFERENCES:

REFRENCES-

1)ADVANCE TRACKING
HYAN TEREPY

2)TRACKER ANALYSISS BY UNIVERSITY OF CMBRIDGE.

3)MODELLING IDEAS OF TRACKERS.

-COMparde.org

4)ELEMENTS OF TRACKING
-DOUGLAS BROWN
5)SOFTWARE CONCERN
-SOFTPEDIA WEB

6) http://physics.highpoint.edu/latitus/-BLOGSPOT.

7)http://iwant2study.org/ospsg/index.php/interactive-
resources/physics/02-newtonian-mechanics/01-kinematics/174-
projectile-motion-BLOGSPOT.

COCNCLUSION-
ACKNOWLEDGEMET-

We would like to convey our utmost gratitude to

Our Dr.Avadhaani .D.N Sir (Associate Professor College of Engineering)
Who guided us through the difficulties and helped us through out this
Assignment.
We thank you for your priceless guidance.
Also.thankfull for the college faculty for being so supportive and encouraging
throughout the process.