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MIT OpenCourseWare
Strobe Project Laboratory
Art: Palmer, Edward, 1803-1872, Figures 113-123. Plate Electrical Machines, 1840 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Dr. James Bales
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 17 other files · 15 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 6.163 Strobe Project Laboratory, Fall 2005, Dr. James Bales — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Has MIT solutions
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 26 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
Not included here
9 items from the source could not be safely included:
- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (8 items)
- Referenced in a table, but without MIT's own verified order, so it isn't used to claim a sequence.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Labs
7 files
Exams
Projects
Study Materials
- Guidelines for Lab Memos Download
- Lens Selection Guide Download
- Basic Darkroom Rules Download
- Nikon D100 Quick Reference Guide (Courtesy of Eileen Huang. Used with permission.) Download
- Project Planning Guide Download
Other materials from this course
67 images
- Setup for the bullet lab, with rifle in foreground Open ↗
- asetup2.jpg Open ↗
- Rewinding the film Open ↗
- 8 of spades just after bullet enters card Open ↗
- 8 of diamonds with bullet halfway through the card Open ↗
- 8 of clubs just after bullet splits the card in two Open ↗
- Video of a pencil shot into a board Open ↗
- Video of a pencil shot into a board Open ↗
- Video of a bullet passing through a banana Open ↗
- Video of a bullet passing through a cucumber Open ↗
- Camera lens at standard extension Open ↗
- Camera lens in macro mode (full extension) Open ↗
- Camera lens focused at infinity Open ↗
- Still frame #1 taken from high speed video of milkdrop sequence Open ↗
- Still frame #2 taken from high speed video of milkdrop sequence Open ↗
- Still frame #3 taken from high speed video of milkdrop sequence Open ↗
- Still frame #4 taken from high speed video of milkdrop sequence Open ↗
- Still frame #5 taken from high speed video of milkdrop sequence Open ↗
- Still frame #6 taken from high speed video of milkdrop sequence Open ↗
- Still frame #7 taken from high speed video of milkdrop sequence Open ↗
- Frozen rose 1 - exit spray (original image) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 1 - exit spray (Photoshop-enhanced) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 2 - showing bullet (original image) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 2 - showing bullet (Photoshop-enhanced) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 3 - just as bullet exits (Photoshop-enhanced) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 3 - just as bullet exits (Photoshop-enhanced) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 4 - just as bullet exits (original image) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 4 - just as bullet exits (Photoshop-enhanced) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 5 - exit spray (original image) Open ↗
- Frozen rose 5 - exit spray (Photoshop-enhanced) Open ↗
- The complete setup: hammers, anvil, forge, and HSV camera Open ↗
- Nima and Heather setting up the HSV camera Open ↗
- setup3.jpg Open ↗
- Blacksmith Amy heats metal in the forge Open ↗
- The anvil with cut-off hardy Open ↗
- Amy strikes the heated metal over the cut-off hardy Open ↗
- Striking the heated metal causes deformation Open ↗
- Still shot from B/W high speed video, deformation sequence #1 Open ↗
- Still shot from B/W high speed video, deformation sequence #2 Open ↗
- Still shot from B/W high speed video, deformation sequence #3 Open ↗
- Still shot from B/W high speed video, deformation sequence #4 Open ↗
- Still shot from B/W high speed video, deformation sequence #5 Open ↗
- Still shot from B/W high speed video, deformation sequence #6 Open ↗
- Deformation sequence, on the anvil - #1 Open ↗
- Deformation sequence, on the anvil - #2 Open ↗
- Deformation sequence, on the anvil - #3 Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- A bullet passing through a peeled orange Open ↗
- A bullet passing through an unpeeled orange Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- poker chips onto a tympani Open ↗
- ball stretching soap bubble Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- bullet lab photo Open ↗
- Test shot of frozen rose Open ↗
- See the groove! Open ↗
- Test shot of card and bullet on eraser Open ↗
- Disk used during stroboscopy lab to determine rotation speed Open ↗
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Macro Lenses, Field of View How to Write a Lab Report?
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Lecture 3: Light Measurement - Units and Methods Stroboscopy
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Lecture 4: Project Planning In-class Project-planning Exercise
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Lecture 5: Evaluate Project Plans from Last Class Photographs under Mixed Lighting (i.e., Flash and Continuous Light) What Makes Good Multiflash? GN for Multiflash, Background/Subject Contrast, Separation and Overexposure
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Lecture 6: Review Lab Reports In-class Generation of Project Ideas for Multiflash - Plan Multiflash
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Lecture 7: Overview of HSV (High Speed Video); Shadowgraphs; Past Final
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Lecture 8: Schlieren Photography Edgerton Slide Show
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Lecture 9: Edgerton Video Meet in Lab Groups and Brainstorm Potential Final Projects
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Lecture 10: Brainstorm Potential Final Projects (cont.)
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Lecture 11: Evaluate Final Project Ideas
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Lecture 12: How to Select a Mark 1 Project
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Lecture 13: In-class Planning of Mark 1 Project
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Lecture 14: Presentation Tips
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Lecture 15: Strobe Circuits and Strobe Process
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Lecture 16: Mark I Oral Reports (First 3 Lab Groups)
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Lecture 17: Mark I Oral Reports (cont.) (Last 3 Lab Groups)
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Lecture 18: Return and Review Homework
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Lecture 19: Quiz
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Lecture 20: Guest Lecture - Motion Analysis from High-speed Video Records
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Lecture 21: Blackbody Emission vs. Line Emission
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Lecture 22: Other Strobe Applications
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Lecture 23: Guest Lecture - Life as a High-speed Imaging Consultant
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Lecture 24: Derive BCPS Equation, HKN Evaluation
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Lecture 25: Final Project Presentations (First 3 Groups)
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Lecture 26: Final Project Presentations (cont.) (Last 3 Groups)
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