Playground Physics
Free
1.4.6for iPad
9.1
5 Ratings
New York Hall of Science
Developer
47.4 MB
Size
Mar 23, 2023
Update Date
Education
Category
4+
Age Rating
Age Rating
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About Playground Physics
Discover and explore the physics in your own movements. Record a video of you or your friends, tap points along the way to trace a path of motion, and discover the motion, forces, and energy involved.
Educators can make Newton’s Laws of motion come alive with an app that was named one of Fast Company’s Top 10 mobile apps! Join a community of educators making inspiring learning experiences with Noticing Tools.
“Playground Physics is one of the most fun units that I’ve done in a long time. I’ve been teaching about 12 years, and everybody had a great time.” - Stacey, 8th grade science teacher
In Playground Physics, you can:
* Record a video of a performance or choose a stock video.
* Tap points along the video to trace a path of motion.
* Examine your performance closely with scrubbing video controls.
* Enter known measurements (height of an object, mass of the object being tracked) in English or metric units to reveal accurate data of your performance.
* Explore interactive, scrubbable graphs synchronized to the video playback. Graphs display the distance traveled and speed along the path in horizontal and vertical vectors.
* Add stickers to mark important moments in the performance (and for a laugh!).
* Play your video back in slow motion to closely examine your movements.
* Explore how distance, speed, and direction changes when things move.
* Understand how a person's or object's potential and kinetic energy change as they move.
* Save your performance as videos with data overlays or editable scenes.
* Share your performance videos or transfer editable scenes to other cloud services and apps through use of the Files app.
Ideal for middle and high school school science classrooms, Playground Physics and accompanying curriculum activities are aligned to and embody the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by integrating core ideas, scientific practices, cross-cutting concepts, and delight! The new 2023 edition of the curriculum is freely available at: https://noticing.nysci.org/apps/playground-physics/
Playground Physics is one of the Noticing Tools (TM) from the New York Hall of Science. The full suite includes Choreo Graph, Fraction Mash, Size Wise, Volumize, and Picture Dots.
Noticing Tools were developed in collaboration with Local Projects, an award-winning media design firm based in New York. http://localprojects.com/
Educators can make Newton’s Laws of motion come alive with an app that was named one of Fast Company’s Top 10 mobile apps! Join a community of educators making inspiring learning experiences with Noticing Tools.
“Playground Physics is one of the most fun units that I’ve done in a long time. I’ve been teaching about 12 years, and everybody had a great time.” - Stacey, 8th grade science teacher
In Playground Physics, you can:
* Record a video of a performance or choose a stock video.
* Tap points along the video to trace a path of motion.
* Examine your performance closely with scrubbing video controls.
* Enter known measurements (height of an object, mass of the object being tracked) in English or metric units to reveal accurate data of your performance.
* Explore interactive, scrubbable graphs synchronized to the video playback. Graphs display the distance traveled and speed along the path in horizontal and vertical vectors.
* Add stickers to mark important moments in the performance (and for a laugh!).
* Play your video back in slow motion to closely examine your movements.
* Explore how distance, speed, and direction changes when things move.
* Understand how a person's or object's potential and kinetic energy change as they move.
* Save your performance as videos with data overlays or editable scenes.
* Share your performance videos or transfer editable scenes to other cloud services and apps through use of the Files app.
Ideal for middle and high school school science classrooms, Playground Physics and accompanying curriculum activities are aligned to and embody the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by integrating core ideas, scientific practices, cross-cutting concepts, and delight! The new 2023 edition of the curriculum is freely available at: https://noticing.nysci.org/apps/playground-physics/
Playground Physics is one of the Noticing Tools (TM) from the New York Hall of Science. The full suite includes Choreo Graph, Fraction Mash, Size Wise, Volumize, and Picture Dots.
Noticing Tools were developed in collaboration with Local Projects, an award-winning media design firm based in New York. http://localprojects.com/
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.4.6
Last updated on Mar 23, 2023
Old Versions
1. The return of turtle mode! You can now play your video back in slow motion using the turtle button in the bottom right corner of the screen. When selected, turtle mode will turn green.
2. General optimization for iOS 16.
2. General optimization for iOS 16.
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Version History
1.4.6
Mar 23, 2023
1. The return of turtle mode! You can now play your video back in slow motion using the turtle button in the bottom right corner of the screen. When selected, turtle mode will turn green.
2. General optimization for iOS 16.
2. General optimization for iOS 16.
1.4.3
Jan 13, 2022
Optimizes the delete video function for latest versions of iPad OS.
1.4.2
Jun 25, 2021
-Updates to the video import feature to ensure access to the camera roll/photo album so videos can be imported from the device local storage
1.4.1
Jun 18, 2020
- New ways to save and share your performance: as a video with data overlays in your device camera roll, as a video with data overlays in other cloud services and apps accessible through the Files app, and as an editable scene that can be exported to other devices running Playground Physics using the Files app and AirDrop
- An updated app help guide page with an overview of the new ways to save and share your performances with the Files app
- Optimized for iOS 12+
- An updated app help guide page with an overview of the new ways to save and share your performances with the Files app
- Optimized for iOS 12+
1.2.3
Nov 28, 2017
Updated and optimized for iOS11
1.2.2
Sep 8, 2017
Fixed issue saving to Google Drive. Save your performances directly from the app.
1.2.1
Sep 29, 2016
Compatibility with iOS10
1.2.0
Aug 9, 2016
Save your Playground Physics videos directly to Google Drive from within the app. Boom!
We heard from so many of you that saving directly to Google Drive would make your lives easier. Keep the good ideas coming - tell us what you think at noticing@nysci.org
Enjoying Playground Physics? Please leave us a review and let us know! (Thank you kindly.)
Check out the whole creative suite of apps from NYCSI in the Noticing Tools STEM Pack.
We heard from so many of you that saving directly to Google Drive would make your lives easier. Keep the good ideas coming - tell us what you think at noticing@nysci.org
Enjoying Playground Physics? Please leave us a review and let us know! (Thank you kindly.)
Check out the whole creative suite of apps from NYCSI in the Noticing Tools STEM Pack.
1.1.0
Apr 19, 2016
We heard your top request - add videos from the Camera Roll. Now any video can be imported and analyzed in Playground Physics. Just remember - the camera has to stay still, and the motion must be entirely parallel to the camera for the data to be meaningful.
And we added a Starter Pack of videos with fun, everyday motions that make great performances to analyze - jumping rope, shooting a basketball, stomp rockets.
And we added a Starter Pack of videos with fun, everyday motions that make great performances to analyze - jumping rope, shooting a basketball, stomp rockets.
1.0.2
Nov 13, 2015
Updated for iOS 9.
Fixed:
- Crash when opening saved performances on iOS 9 devices.
- Video export could become unresponsive, and fail to complete video port.
- Disabled bitcode to ensure compatibility with third party frameworks.
- Positioning of video and other UI elements.
- Workaround iOS 9 issue where texture images were not loaded in SpriteKit nodes.
Known Issue:
- Disabled Turtle Mode on iOS 9. We love the slo-motion view, but there is an issue in iOS9 that prevents it from working properly. We’ve disabled Turtle Mode for now, but hope it can return after a future update.
Fixed:
- Crash when opening saved performances on iOS 9 devices.
- Video export could become unresponsive, and fail to complete video port.
- Disabled bitcode to ensure compatibility with third party frameworks.
- Positioning of video and other UI elements.
- Workaround iOS 9 issue where texture images were not loaded in SpriteKit nodes.
Known Issue:
- Disabled Turtle Mode on iOS 9. We love the slo-motion view, but there is an issue in iOS9 that prevents it from working properly. We’ve disabled Turtle Mode for now, but hope it can return after a future update.
1.0.1
Sep 8, 2015
Updated keywords for better search and discovery.
Added an App Video Preview.
Added an App Video Preview.
1.0.0
Aug 17, 2015
Playground Physics FAQ
Click here to learn how to download Playground Physics in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Playground Physics.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
Playground Physics supports English
