Experiments and Video Analysis in Classical Mechanics

Prof. Dr. Vitor Luiz Bastos de Jesus graduated in Physics in 1993 at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói - Brazil). He obtained a Master’s degree in Physics in 1996 at the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF), working on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) applied to magnetic intermetallic systems. He obtained a PhD degree in atomic physics, in collaboration with the Van de Graaff Laboratory at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio - Brazil). He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Van de Graaff Laboratory from 2000 until 2002, and then traveled to Germany to work at the Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, as a collaborator researcher until 2004. Since then he teaches at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, Rio Janeiro (IFRJ), campus Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, mainly in didactical laboratories of classical and modern physics, and keeps his research collaborations with various groups both in Brazil and abroad. He co-authored the textbook “Introdução à Física do Estado Sólido” (Introduction to Solid State Physics).

1. Inertia by video analysis.- 2. Acceleration of gravity.- 3.   Acceleration of gravity by video analysis.- 4. Circular motion by video analysis.- 5. Dynamics.- 6. Pendulum.- 7. Pendulum by video analysis.- 8. Conical pendulum.- 9.   Pure rolling by video analysis.- 10. Kinetic and rolling frictions by video analysis.- 11. Horizontal launch and mechanical energy by video analysis.- 12. Coefficient of restitution by video analysis.- 13. Bi-dimensional collision.- Appendix I. The free software tracker.- Appendix II. Graphs.- Appendix III. Access to the videos discussed in this book.