Summary
Mark builds a rig to capture a 'frozen moment' from all around a subject using one high-speed camera. It's a look at how capturing light very fast reveals things our eyes miss.
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Ages 7+
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Talk about it
A high-speed camera grabs thousands of images each second. Playing them slowly reveals motion far too fast for our eyes to catch.
- Why can't your eyes see what a 7,200-frames-per-second camera sees?
- How does slowing footage down help scientists and engineers?
- What clever trick did Mark use to get views from all around?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: frame rate, high-speed, light, slow motion.
Try it: Film a friend dropping a ball on a phone's slow-mo mode. What do you notice that you missed at normal speed?