Sciencenter Showtime! Presentation Mousetrap Cascade (highlights)

Dr. Luke Donev set off 500 mousetraps armed with over 1,000 ping pong balls at the Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY. Museum visitors watched in awe as a single ball triggered the cascade, and then discovered the physics behind it.

This 3-minute "highlights" video shows a time lapse montage of over 1,000 ping pong balls and 500 mousetraps being set up for a cascade explosion. It shows the explosion from several angles and at different speeds. Visit http://www.sciencenter.org/programs/mousetrap.asp for more information.

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[fredrick2392]

@LadyOfWater

The name of the peice Maple leaf

[LadyOfWater]

Love this video! had to use it for a nuclear fission reference at school :) btw what's the name of the first piano piece?

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

@htayler

Very cool. The best thing those traps could ever be used for.

[htayler]

Very cool.

The only thing missing is a high-speed camera for slow-motion playback in which you can watch the traps go off. But hey, not everybody gets to work for the Mythbusters.

[virtualside]

That is SO COOL! I really like the fast photography with the music. :-) And I'm SO glad you did the replays from different angles and backwards and slow-motion. That was EXACTLY what I wanted to see, since the actual event through happens all happens so fast. WELL DONE!

[lennythelabrat]

Way to go Luke!

[Kentswold]

HA! Oh Luke, that's fantastic! I wish we could have made it down to see in person. (-greg)