Vernier Video Physics

Very hard to use, expensive for what? Overall a mid product and not worth my money

Fine if the app were free, but pretty unacceptable issues for a paid app. This app seems pretty easy to use which is great, but the inability to set the scale to something other than 1 m makes it very inflexible. You can’t really investigate what is happening if you are investigating anything smaller than a meter, and if you are looking at things much larger you can only set a scale of 1m which increases the uncertainty of the measurements. Furthermore, there is not an ability to do time delay which makes this even less useful. You should be able to set the time origin in sync with the first video analysis point. These things really need to get fixed.

I’m a chemistry teacher who uses many Vernier products in class and I also coach pole vault. I started using this with my athletes to analyze their run so I can show them what I see by eye. I just really wish we could change the axis options as x velocity vs x position would help show them more accurately the set-up at take-off. This would greatly improve efficiency and effective coaching as I need to export into the graphical analysis app. This change would speed up my analysis! As others mention, the tracking feature doesn’t work well for me either as I’m analyzing running mechanics.

Really old tech here. Doesn’t easily work - maybe on super simple applications like the ball drop example. The tracking is not usable for anything beyond the simple examples shown for a basic lab experiment.

Tracking need to be done with a special care. Make video that way you have high contrast between tracking object and the background

Actually very good! This app has very unique features I thought a mobile device couldn’t do! I could recommend to be able to add things the the tracking but it looks like you can draw if you track it on your finger!

Getting accurate results requires that you know what you’re doing, but if you do, then it’s great. The auto tracking is meh, but manually adding data points is quick and easy. Unfortunately, analyzing the data in this app is crap. Instead, download Vernier’s free Graphical Analysis app and import the data into that. Once the data is there, you can view x and y position and velocity data as well as do curve fitting. All in all, well worth the money for a physics classroom.

Don't waste your money

Please fix and do not buy

Son was suggested to use this app for a physics experiment. It was difficult to use, has very poor documentation of how to use and he basically had to plot all the data in excel to generate the graphs he needed for his experiment. Do not recommend this app!