What if your students could analyze a sprint, a bench press, and a bicep curl—and walk away understanding kinematics, conservation of energy, and rotational motion? All it takes is the Vernier Video Analysis® app, a video, and any classroom device, including Chromebooks™.
In this webinar, Vernier educators Fran Poodry and John Melville show you how to turn everyday human movement into compelling physics investigations using Video Analysis. Drawing from three ready-to-use activities in the Vernier Video Analysis book series, they’ll demonstrate how students can move from concrete, real-world motion to core physics concepts—fast.
You will
- Analyze running gait using position vs. time and velocity vs. time graphs, comparing jogging, running, and sprinting to build student fluency with motion language and graphical interpretation
- Investigate the forces, work, and power behind a bench press, connecting conservation laws and net force to real athletic performance
- Explore torque and angular velocity through a bicep curl analysis, extending Newton’s laws into rotational motion
