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High speed camera time! Watch things break, bounce and fly!

Written By Dr Michelle Dickinson on Thursday, May 07, 2015 | 07:42 PM

 
As engineers we are fascinated in how things bounce, fly and break, but sometimes they are too fast for our eye to see. Using a high speed camera (Photron Fastcam SA5) we spent a summer investigating the engineering principles behind the mechanics of movement. This video is a highlight of some of the tings we studied.