High-Speed Imaging Links
Loren Winters
N.C. School of Science and Math
Durham, NC
winters@ncssm.edu
winters@hiviz.com
How-to
Tools:
http://www.hiviz.com/tools/tools.htm
Activities:
http://www.hiviz.com/activities/activities.htm
Andy Davidhazy, RIT (many articles and tips on doing high-speed photography)
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/articles.html
Trevor's Tips for High-Speed
Photography with a P&S Digital Camera (by Trevor Shannon)
Sound trigger assembly instructions (for workshop participants)
The LED strobe
Robert F. Dorner, "Add Flash to Your Class with an LED Student Strobe," The Physics Teacher, vol. 35, March, 1997, p. 164.
High-intensity LED strobe (by Patrick Wong)
Microcontroller-based portable intervalometer (by Alex Hornstein)
Results
High-Speed Imaging at NCSSM (a collection of student photos and project web sites)
Splash Gallery (all about drops and splashes by Dahl Winters)
My Swedish students
http://web.telia.com/~u40440576/
My Thai students at the Mahidol
Wittayanusorn School
http://hiviz.org/mwit/
Trevor Shannon photography
http://www.trevorshp.com/photos.htm
Applications
Physics projects
http://hiviz.com/PROJECTS/projects.htm
Optical Toys
Laura Hayes and John Howard
Wileman Exhibit of Optical Toys (in particular, see phenakistoscope)
http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/opticaltoys.htm
Journal articles
"Observations Through a Moving Slot," L.M. Winters, The Physics Teacher, 376 (1994).
"Does the Tip of a Snapped Towel Travel Faster Than Sound?", N. Lee, S. Allen, E. Smith, L.M. Winters, The Physics Teacher, 376 (1993).
"A Visual Measurement of the Speed of Sound for Classroom Demonstration", L.M. Winters, The Physics Teacher 31, 284 (1993).
"A Photogate Flash Trigger and a Demonstration of Inertia", L.M. Winters, The Physics Teacher 30, 411 (1992).
"High-Speed Photography with Computer Control", L.M. Winters, The Physics Teacher 29, 356 (1991).
"High-Speed Photography with Sound Triggers," L.M. Winters, The Physics Teacher 28, 12 (1990).