With the increased availability of modern technology and handheld probeware for classrooms, the iPad1 and the Video Physics2 application developed by Vernier are used to capture and analyze the motion of an ice hockey puck within secondary-level physics education. Students collect, analyze, and generate digital modes of representation of physics phenomena using modern technologies to complement theoretical plots. This activity acknowledges hockey players' implicit understanding of the launch angle and initial velocity of a saucer pass as basic projectile motion while engaging students in authentic physics-based problem solving.
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See www.apple.com/pad/ for more information on the iPad.
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Vernier Software & Technology
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Vernier Software & Technology
, Logger Pro, www.vernier.com/products/software/lp/.© 2013 American Association of Physics Teachers.
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