Abstract This study primarily focuses on tracking a parachutist’s terminal velocity and energy during a free fall using video analysis. Also, this study looks into related literature about the implications of this experiment for classroom practice. High-quality and slow-motion videos of free-falling slotted masses acting as parachutists were captured, and the terminal velocities and energies were analyzed through software tracker video analysis and modeling. The data from the software revealed that, indeed, the terminal velocity is directly proportional to the square root of the masses. The 200g parachutist reaches terminal velocity first, then the less massive parachutist. The generated kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, and total mechanical energy graphs were similar to the literature. The tracker video analysis can indeed track a parachutist’s terminal velocity and energy. However, the acceleration due to gravitational needed to be measured correctly due to some errors in the experiment. Furthermore, the literature has cited positive and negative implications for classroom practice. This study can say that the positive outweighs the negative. The positive repercussions were about enhanced engagement, accuracy, and data precision, while the negative ones were about the school’s technological divide.
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