Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool

written by
Douglas Brown, Robert Hanson, and Wolfgang Christian

Available Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Czech, Arabic, Finnish, Korean, Swedish, Hungarian, Dutch, Hebrew, Indonesian, Slovak, Thai, Malay, Polish, Turkish

Tracker installers are available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and include a Java runtime and Xuggle video engine.
Tracker is an Open Source Physics tool built on the OSP code library. Additional Tracker resources, demonstration experiments, and videos, can be found by

Additional Tracker resources including Tracker help and sample videos are available from the Tracker home page (link below).

The Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool allows students to model and analyze the motion of objects in videos. By overlaying simple dynamical models directly onto videos, students may see how well a model matches the real world. Interference patterns and spectra can also be analyzed with Tracker.Tracker installers are available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and include a Java runtime and Xuggle video engine.Tracker is an Open Source Physics tool built on the OSP code library. Additional Tracker resources, demonstration experiments, and videos, can be found by searching ComPADRE for “Tracker.” Additional Tracker resources including Tracker help and sample videos are available from the Tracker home page (link below).