Physics

How to Plot a Position TIme Graph

Step 1:

Open tracker and go to file, then press "open file" to select your video

Step 2:

choose which portion of the video to analyze

Step 3:

Establish the origin of our observation

Step 4:

You go to "create" and then "point mass", then one window labeled "track control"

Step 5:

click on "mass A" and then select "Autotracker" and then another window will show

Step 6:

Follow whatever instructions it is you are given in blue font.

Step 7:

You fllow the movement of your object manually by clicking "search next"

Step 8:

To choose the variables you're interested in, you select "table" and a menu will show up, there you will select your values.

Step 9:

You will click an arrow and select all your data so you trasnfer it to a google sheets

Step 10:

after transfering your data, you will select "Insert" and then select "chart"

Step 11:

You will then choose "scatter plot" and then select data range for the X axis.

Step 12:

You will add a series and click "select data range" and you will put the Y axis there and you're done