Thursday, October 23, 2008

Slow-Mo video Explosion

The other day we took some time out of our hard work to further investigate one of our demonstrations. One of our current chemistry demonstrations is an acetylene explosion. We decided to use our high speed camera to investigate what really happens when the reaction occurs. This video is the result. It was filmed at 600 frames per second. A normal video is filmed around 32 frames per second. The high speed allows us to slow down the action.