Gav and Dan are looking further afield to find weird things they can present to us in super slow-motion. Since they have a gun that will accurately shoot three-quarter-inch steel ball bearings, why not shoot it at a Newton's cradle, which has ball bearings that are only slightly larger?
The first slow-motion shooting begins at 2:53, but the result is so interesting that they try it in different ways to further explore the phenomenon, like using a hand gun. That's much more difficult for accuracy, but the mishaps are still worth watching. By the time the video is over, you'll have a newfound appreciation for ball bearings. And for Dan's marksmanship.
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yo thats amazing
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Ah, the things we do with a 100k FPS camera. Honestly, this sort of thing is a great way to demonstrate inertia, velocity, materials, etc... Way more interesting than dry textbooks and mathematical formulas.
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