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Conclusions

Our original idea was to capture images of a speeding pellet impacting a thin film of water.  In order to fully analyze this phenomenon, we had to take a large volume of photographs in the attempt to capture the "stages" of this high speed event.  We planned ordering these photographs chronologically to give us an overall understanding of its progression.

We feel confident in the fact that we have accomplished all of our goals.  We successfully captured a large volume of pictures, picked out the best, ordered them for analysis.  We observed every aspect of our subject from several different views and successive moments in time and got our complete "image" of this phenomenon step by step.  Good lighting, which was crucial to our success, was hard to obtain, but through research and experimentation we also obtained this goal.  We took such a large volume of pictures because of a still unknown variable in our delay.  (For example, several pictures taken with the same delay produced drastically different photographs)  This really limited our ability to do any scientific or mathematical analysis.  In the future, one could eliminate this error and through a deeper analysis discover even more about this phenomenon.