Walking to and from a Motion Detector

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Walking to and from a Motion Detector

A motion detector next to the software capstone to set it up

Pira: 1D15.10

Materials: Capstone (app), Laptop, 850 Universal Interface, Motion Detector

This demo shows the position, velocity, and acceleration graphs using the motion detector and the Pasco program. This has a variety of uses that can help students understand the ways that position, velocity, and acceleration are correlated mathematically. This can also be used with more than just someone walking towards and away from the motion detector. It can be used with a variety of Pasco cars, fan cars, etc..