| Title: | Visualizing with Video and Virtual Reality* |
| Meeting: | 119th AAPT National Meeting: San Antonio, TX |
| Location: | N/A |
| Date: | Friday, August 6 |
| Time: | 8 a.m. |
| Author: |
Dean A. Zollman, Kansas
State Univ. 785-532-1619, dzollman@phys.ksu.edu |
| Co-Author(s): | None |
| Abstract: | Over the past fifteen years video has become a common tool for analysis in the physics laboratory. When students collect data from an event recorded on video, they are using real events to help them understand how the motions are visualized with graphs and data. Interactive video has also aided students in understanding a variety of complex situations by enabling them to manipulate variables in a controlled environment. Recent advances in data collection can automate some of the data collection while new forms of non-linear video and simulations such as QuickTime VR and VRML provide greater flexibility in interactivity. These methods can potentially provide new pedagogical tools for physics students and offer much broader opportunities for hands-on physics learning at a distance. |