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Logger Pro® Keeps Getting Better!

Lots of new features added to Logger Pro 3.3
We’re always working to add new features to Logger Pro while guarding against making things too complicated. The new 3.3 version, released in May, adds support for Go! Temp and Go! Link, as well as the Ohaus® Scout Pro balances. You can even use several LabPros, or an assortment of these devices, all at once! Logger Pro, with its ability to import calculator and Palm data, is truly “data central.”

Here are some of the new features to make data collection and analysis easier:

• Collect data from multiple LabPros, Go! Temp, Go! Link, and Ohaus balances simultaneously.
• Continuous detection of auto-ID sensors. This means that you can add and remove sensors after opening files, and Logger Pro will keep up with the changes.
• Keyboard triggering. Now you can start data collection with no delay, simply by hitting the space bar.
• Optional live readouts for the Motion Detector.
• New toolbar icons are clearer than before.
• Single-point calibration option.
• Improved Sensor Confi rmation dialog box. When Logger Pro doesn’t find the sensors used in an experiment file, you are prompted to connect the missing sensors. When the indicated auto-ID sensors are detected, the dialog box closes automatically.
• Thermometer and gauge meters give you a new way to view data values.
• Optional larger and simplified toolbar buttons.

The update is free for users of any version of Logger Pro 3. Go to www.vernier.com/tech/lpupdates.html to download an updater to Logger Pro 3.3, or call us for a CD. If you are still using Logger Pro or Logger Pro 2, the upgrade to Logger Pro 3.3 is $50.

Logger Lite™ 1.2

Logger Lite 1.2 is now shipping with all Go!Temp or Go! Link devices. Logger Lite is a simplified data-collection program designed for younger students. Compared to Logger Pro, the toolbar buttons are larger, and shorter menus are easier to navigate. Version 1.2 adds the Events with Entry data-collection mode, which expands the experiments you can do with Logger Lite. Version 1.2 also adds support for Macintosh OS 9.2, in addition to the existing support for OS X and Windows 98, Me, 2000, and XP. Give us a call if you need an upgrade to Logger Lite 1.2.

Animated Displays

Have you ever wanted to add velocity vectors to video analysis, or represent a changing temperature or pressure with a moving dot on screen? How about making a barometer screen that includes an arrow that shows the rising or falling trend? Th e new Animated Display feature of Logger Pro 3.3 lets you do these things and more.

Here are some more things you can do with an Animated Display

• In a ball-toss experiment, you toss a ball over a Motion Detector. Th e Animated Display can be set to move up and down with the position readings, and have velocity and acceleration vectors superimposed on the moving display.
• Illustrate simple harmonic motion from Motion Detector data.
• Animate a point showing the position of the center of mass along a board as calculated from two Force Plate readings. You will fi nd examples of animated displays in the Sample Data/Physics folder in Logger Pro 3.3.

Velocity vectors with components in Logger Pro video analysis


Animated ball-toss experiment with velocity and acceleration vectors