Re: using cinematography to anchor kinematics

[Brian Whatcott <betwys@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

At 11:55 AM 5/26/2003 -0700, Richard Hake
<rrhake@EARTHLINK.NET>  you wrote:

> In his PhysLrnR post of 26 May 2003 of the above subject title,
> Robert Beichner (2003) wrote:
>
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> On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 06:28 PM, Kirby Urner . . . [2003]. . . wrote:
>
> >  For some time, I've been experimenting with cinematography as a
> >  technology amenable to communicating some basic ideas in kinematics.
> >  Of course I'm not unique in this regard, and one point of this thread
> >  might be to garner some sense how my pedagogical approach overlaps
> >  what's already in the literature, given many here have greater
> >  awareness of the literature than I.
>
> Might I so humbly suggest:
>
> Beichner, R. and Abbott, D. (1999).  Video-Based Labs for Introductory
> Physics Courses. J. Coll. Sci. Teaching, 29, 101-104.
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> [Beicher lists nine excellent Beichner et al. references on video-based labs
>     and kinematics].
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> Not to be outdone in humility by the self-effacing Bob Beichner, may
> I so modestly suggest a quick scan of Hake (1998a,b) and references
> therein. In Socratic Dialogue Lab #0.2 "Introduction to Kinematics,"
> phonons from the sonic ranger reflected from students' own moving
> bodies [see e.g. Thornton & Sokoloff (1990), Steinberg et al. (1997)]
> substitute for the photons of cinematography reflected from moving
> objects.
>
> Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
> 24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
> <rrhake@earthlink.net>


Attempting to keep pace with the general self-effacement, I offer
 a remembrance that is not self-referential: In the days following
 the immolation of the New York landmark feature, there was a
kinematic digitization of the towers'  fall, by a contributor
 to this list.
 The follow ups notably included an investigation of a marked
contribution to the kinematic fall model from a sinusoid,
decided (by Mallinckrodt, if I recall) to be due to a fourier
component of the step pause early in the collapse, while the
first subfloor gave way.  The discussion here was as useful as
 anything I saw later.

Brian Whatcott    Altus OK