Amazing Slow-motion Rubber Band Trick

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Uploaded by on Apr 25, 2008

See the speed of a vibrating rubber band slow down when placed in front of a TV screen.

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  • Didn't work with my TV.

  • Yeah, It doesn't work on my flat screen computer monitor either. I'm not sure what kind it requires, but on a glass regular 1990's tv it works.

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  • Here's one trick my kids will never see.

  • This only works with CRT (tube) type displays because they refresh the entire screen constantly. LCD displays only refresh pixels that need it.

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  • For those who can't get it to work: it will only work with a CRT. Basically, you need a blinking light source, so that each "sage" of the wave in the rubber band's vibration is illuminated separately. The rubber band normally vibrates so fast that you can't see it, the TV's light can hide most phases of the vibration that would cause you to see motion blur. Instead, you see frozen "photographs" of each stage, played out. This only works because the vibration repeats, it happens again and again.

  • @11011010001101 yeah.. also, lcds update without flickering

  • Doesn't work.

  • @TheWwweee

    Because they don't make CRT monitors anymore. The "slow motion" occurs because the monitor flickers on and off at its refresh rate frequency, and the band is only visible when the screen is bright. LCD monitors don't are continuously backlit, meaning they don't flicker, so it doesn't work.

  • @Envergure why

  • wow,that's cool.

  • Depends on refresh rate of the screen.

  • @ejg2055 correct him then?

  • @11011010001101

    This is wrong on more than one level.

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