High-Speed Videography

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Bursting Light Bulb


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This is a video clip of a blowgun dart being shot through a burnt-out light bulb. The black lines behind the bulb are 1 cm apart and were used to estimate the speed of the dart using the frame timestamp on the video. The speed of the dart was estimated at ____m/s. This video was shot at a framerate of 2000 frames/sec, with a shutter speed at 20X, or 1/40000th of a second. A sound trigger was used to capture this event.

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