Richard Chen!!!                     Ashwin Kulkarni!!!

In our project, we photographed a can being crushed by a large weight (physics books) when prodded on two sides. The purpose of our project was to determine the acceleration of the top of the can, while it is crushing. To accomplish our project, we built a frame to hold our books, and used a laser trigger to trigger the flashes which exposed our photograph. For more details on our method and photographing techniques, go here. After we captured the pictures, we used Adobe Photoshop 5.5 to analyze our data, to figure out acceleration.

Our project spanned from 3/7/01 to 3/16/01 (MINITERM!!! YAY!)

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