Bullet vs Newton's Cradle at 100,000 FPS - The Slow Mo Guys

Hi, I'm Gab, I'm Dan, we're the

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, it's been a while Dan, since we used this ridiculous thing, I forgot we had it, but then it's absolutely massive, it's been sitting there wanting to be used. All this time, yeah, it's been about six years, it's basically an air pressure tank, a solenoid valve, and a very long barrel capable of shooting things that are this big and spherical, yeah, so it's basically a ball of three-quarter inch, this is a three-quarter inch barrel, so we thought it was perfect, let's try it last time we used it to shoot more teasers through various objects.

The ping pong bat was one of my favorites. Oh, that's the first one to be destroyed this time. I thought we could start Newton's

cradle

at the highest speed possible. I can handle what I like about this is that essentially these are pretty hard ball bearings and we're going to shoot more or less identical ball bearings straight through them so it's going to be very interesting to see what happens it's going to be interesting to see. Even though the speed we are using is an order of magnitude faster, will it really send the final ball or will it just annihilate everything?

It will be a real experiment, but I think a combination of the two is what I'm hoping for. It will be the best

slow

motion footage, yes, absolutely, yes, okay, why don't we pressurize this tank and see what happens. Yes, this is the very fast Phantom TMX 7510 camera that we have used several times on this channel, we'll get started. at approximately 82,000 frames per second in 720p. I'm using this perspex water tank as a blast shield. I think it's the right height if I move it in love. There it is, ready to go. We used this cannon before. with maltesers that were obviously different sizes and shapes, they were pretty tight, but not perfect, but they were good because they were light, wait, and hard, whereas this is very hard but also quite heavy, yes, so you need quite a bit of barrel . to start filling the tank, okay, yeah, ready, three, two, one, turn your neck, oh, everything is gone, yeah, he's out of balls, this one stayed in what's the second, well, everyone's tangled now it is impossible to know. uh, not really the second one, it's the second one, it's actually a pretty interesting type of physical experience, yeah, I'd love to know, I'm really excited to see if upon impact with the first one, the last one really goes away or is that all just driven as a large group?

Well, it depends on how tough they are, if they were perfectly hard, perfectly tough balls and there was no smear, then I'm sure everyone would act like a perfect Newton's Crandall, the ball is on its way. oh here it comes booking it it's smaller so no it worked its size doesn't match doesn't it it shipped it shipped it was fine so not only is the ball that hits smaller but it's still He had enough force to hit the lead, yes, did he? I don't even like to be affected and the further back the balls are in Newton's

cradle

, the more they are affected by the grip of the nylon string, yes, and somehow they go up, but the way the lead broke when I thought the ropes would have had some effect on it, as if it had broken on the way up.

Oh, he broke like he wasn't on any rope. It had the smallest effect if you look at it, like if you gave it a little twist, I think flip. so I guess the second one is the one that survived, yes, because it was hit twice, even though it was closer to the ball that actually hit it, it forced all its energy into the next three balls that went flying and the first ball took it all. of the worst part, so the second ball is the safest, I figure, well, I'm not disappointed, it should be a small one with smaller balls, well, yes, because that one was a little bigger, yes, a little more baby, you see this little dent here, oh.

God, you see it's flattened, flattened, and this one's been flattened here too, look at that, oh yeah, and you see the original bb is shaped even worse, look at that, that's what we shot, that's what we shot, It's like cracked, it's hard, it's a solid metal. Although it's not like that, yes, I think it is, it should be seen, it looks like a death star, doesn't it? We can make so many little pieces. It's scary looking down the damn barrel, no, because I know it's not loaded or something, yeah, here are the safety measures in place to make blood, there's literally a huge air gap, so even if there was a bearing of balls there, it wouldn't be if there was a ball bearing or pressure, or yes, so there are three different things. that's on the way 82,000 frames per second seems to be enough for this, ready, set, three, two, one fire, wow, so this one I zoomed in really close, oh yeah, oh look at that, oh, it just broke the first immediately.

I didn't even like bothering the nylon, it was like watching you, that's the crazy thing and the last one broke the middle two as well, so the one receiving the impact immediately broke off the support and the last one also broke as separate frames. crazy and there is still no upward movement like any of them no, they just go, I think it is definitely correct to say that the first ball and the last wall have the most impact, the middle three, the second goes, the third and then the fourth as the second. It has the least impact, yes, and it almost stops dead.

The first, not in reality, but at an incomparable speed and in slow motion. If you look at this, this is where the impact happened and then on the other side, a little bit less energy, but still, that's cool, Dennis. so I'm guessing that as you go down the balls they will have slightly smaller holes, starting with the death star which can be seen smaller, you can definitely make out the ones that were hit with the fired ball. Yeah, I feel like in the post I'll definitely be able to take measurements because we know the diameter of that ball.

Yes, then I can enter that and it will calculate the speed. I feel like when we had the Malteser cannon they went faster. They were going very fast, they were going at sort of 900 feet per second, I think that's what they said was the record, but obviously this is heavier and there's less pressure this time, no nitrogen is used in a vacuum, right, we were doing about 150 before this. about 9 500. um we have another option, we have a gun that shoots, you know, a little faster than the speed of sound, yeah, so it should have more beans if you're worried about the lack of beans, then you're saying that I can, from a safe distance, place a pistol shot into the side of Newton's cradle.

I can try. I think I need to be at least 15 or 20 feet away. Yeah, do you want to describe the ammo we're using today? Yes it's a 9 by 19 which means 9mm 19 caliber the length of the cartridge is round ball or fmj so that means it has a kind of softer cupronickel type copper metal on the outside of the center lead and that's for engage in rifling, it's kind of a standard pistol ammunition, used for target practice, things like that, it's just above the speed of sound, about 1200 feet per second, let's take hundreds of thousands of pictures of them as they cruise through the air, it will be an incredible shot.

If it works, but it's an absolutely incredible shot, there you go, are you ready? Yeah, I missed, but okay, sure, eh, try again, done, I don't know what I hit. I don't think it was the balls, oh, it's under the balls, oh. Look at this, this is how you put it, yes, perfectly central where the balls are, except it's too low, so it went in and then flipped the whole thing over, hit the table and then bounced back to the bottom, yes, practically here, it's still hot, ready. oh I hit a ball, I think maybe not, I can't really see what it did, maybe it was just completely off the mark, God no, surely it never, ever, did less, put less thrust into the front end than the bearing of the ball, oh my God, that

bullet

.

It crashed, rekt son, thing's fine, I saw the ball bearing fly down, yeah, and I thought, "I think I hit one" and then I went and I thought, "Well, I can't have done it because there's still four left." balls". with four balls there, it was a great shot, it was a great shot, a great shot, is it that less dense? Yes, it's not that strange, there's not as much mass behind it and it's not as hard as the ball bearing either. ball bearings are much harder, so if it just falls apart it's because ball bearings are harder and don't have as much weight, but above all the hardness is incredible, unexpected when I saw all the balls there, yes.

I thought, uh, it's probably a mess, but you can take a look at the chart and I watched it play and I usually try to keep my reaction so we can watch it together. I was just looking at it off camera. I just said, no, that's it. so good as soon as i saw this on base i knew i was going to hit the ball because it exploded because it exploded it just went away and all this is what the

bullet

did after it shattered the shattered remains of

newton

credit i think isaac would be happy With what we've done today I'd approve, he looks down at us thinking yeah

guys

, yeah, he definitely has a smile on his face as he looks at us.

I just can't believe the gun didn't do much amazing, I'm so shocked it's like the gun hit a solid steel wall, yeah in terms of how it just shattered and the wall just went away, yeah yeah, but this is the Newton's cradle that is in better shape after being hit by the ball and this is the gun, a surprisingly good shape, yes, and it must be just the weight and hardness of the ball that makes the difference instead of the bullet, yes, it still works perfectly, just return it. give that just give it back wow beautiful sunset I also enjoyed that was a nice day hope you enjoyed that video as much as we enjoyed making it subscribe if you love slow motion uh click the bell yeah yeah , do it.

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