Video analysis of motion processes has a long
tradition in physics education [1] and continues to
attract physics teachers’ attention through creative
and captivating ways of exploring the laws of
mechanics using slow motion, point tracking and
multiple representations [2–4]. Graphs, diagrams,
tables and strobe pictures are generated by video
data and are said to foster students’ understanding
of the underlying physical principles more
thoroughly than traditional physics lessons from a
book [5]. Video analysis of motion processes may
also help students to build a link between theory
and experimentation [3].