Flying playing card through smoke in slow motion @AlphaPhoenixChannel

Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

I went through many evenings recently attempting to film flying cards in slow motion, but interacting with a fog machine so we could actually SEE how the air was moving around the card! I think it turned out pretty cool. The clip in this video is recorded at about 1500 fps, played back at 15fps. The main video has some shots at over 7000 fps!

Flying playing card through smoke in slow motion

$Five years in 49 minutes Ive had piles and piles of questions about the research that I did in gradschool, so here it is! Be careful what you wish for... About a year ago I defended my dissertation from UCSB in Materials, exploring, among other things, growth of a semiconductor called lead selenide, a narrow-gap material with a bright (ba-dum-tss) future in the realm of infrared optoelectronics. I hope you enjoy! For more information than you could ever reasonably desire: https://escholarship.org/content/qt9mj491xk/qt9mj491xk.pdf Viewers of the channel are probably going to be most interested in all the fun machines featured in chapter 2, Experimental Methods - Molecular beam epitaxy (making crystals in ultra high vacuum) - X-ray diffraction (explained with almost no math) - Electron microscopy (many variants) Music in this video: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626$

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