Imagine a car with a leaky engine that drips oil at a regular rate. Ticker tape diagrams are sometimes referred to as oil drop diagrams. It is found in the Physics Interactive section and allows a learner to apply concepts of speed, velocity, acceleration and ticker tape diagrams. We would like to suggest that you combine the reading of this page with the use of our Name That Motion Interactive. You have to interact with it! And that's exactly what you do when you use one of The Physics Classroom's Interactives. Sometimes it isn't enough to just read about it. The trail of dots provided a history of the object's motion and therefore a representation of the object's motion. As the object moved, it dragged the tape through the "ticker," thus leaving a trail of dots. A long tape was attached to a moving object and threaded through a device that placed a tick upon the tape at regular intervals of time - say every 0.10 second. Before the advent of computers in Physics labs, a common way of analyzing the motion of objects in physics labs was to perform a ticker tape analysis. The trail of dots would represent the motion of the object as it changes its position over the course of time.īelieve it or not, there is such a device - it's called a ticker tape timer. Perhaps such a device could track the location of a object moving in 1-dimension by placing a dot on a strip of paper. Imagine a device that could identify the position of a moving object at constant intervals of time - for instance, every second or every 1/10-th second or even every 1/60-th second.
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