Recording Science Experiments With High Speed Video
High speed video recording enables motion analysis on mechanisms, biomechanical systems, projectiles, crash testing, and many other systems which are traditionally difficult to analyze thoroughly due to their high speed and limitations of standard video recording. While simple experiments such as a pendulum swing or testing acceleration due to gravity do not require such sophistication, with high speed video one can watch a bullet slowly erupt from the barrel of a gun closely followed by a cloud of smoke and flames and track its movement millimeter by millimeter. Modern high quality high speed video recorders can record at speeds in excess of 250,000 frames per second, capturing even the slightest change that would be imperceptible to a standard video camera. At these speeds, one second can be viewed seamlessly in slow motion for over ten minutes. The most sophisticated high speed camera in the world can record at 200 million frames per second. High speed cameras are invaluable to research on impacts, projectiles, and chemical reactions with applications from consumer safety to military use. Due to advances in technology, multiple high speed cameras at recording speeds of up to 1,000 frames per second are now available to the home consumer at affordable prices.More info here: Shark Week: The 118,000 Super High Speed Shark Week Camera