# Going back to the roots: how to create stroboscopic photos from digital videos

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how to generate stroboscopic photos from digital videos using Tracker software, enabling intuitive analysis of various physical movements for educational purposes.

## Contribution

It introduces a method to create educational stroboscopic images from digital videos, combining historical context with practical examples for physics teaching.

## Key findings

- Effective creation of stroboscopic photos from digital videos.
- Application to diverse physics experiments including mechanics and electromagnetism.
- Enhanced educational engagement through visual analysis.

## Abstract

We show here how to create from digital films using the well-known software Tracker stroboscopic photos in order to analyze different types of movements. The advantage of this procedure is that it is possible to analyze the printed photo or on a computer screen in an intuitive way for the students. After presenting a historical perspective of the use of stroboscopic photos in secondary education we discuss several examples: the movement of a remote control car, an elastic planar collision, the movement of a projectile and also an experiment in electromagnetism, more specifically, the discharge of a capacitor measured using an analog multimeter.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1901.05058