Brownian Motion

This was a project to capture Brownian motion with video equipment, transfer it to a computer and analyze the motion with tracking software.

The 2001 team:

Reese Salmon
Candace Robbins
Kyle Forinash

Click here to see a video of Brownian motion . (Caution: 30M movie.) NOTE: I have three other clips- contact me directly if you are interested.
This is a video of a microscope image at 400x of a solution of plastic spheres, each 913 nanometers in diameter. The software VideoGraph from Physics Academic Software was used to analyze the motion.

Our paper on this published in European Journal of Physics (PDF format).

The 2004 team:

Rorie Danielle Hudson
Jeremy D  Schneider
Kyle Forinash (contact: kforinas@ius.edu)

This time we are using a digital camera and the software Tracker (an Open Source Physics Project) to analyze the data.

Invited talk given at the 2005 American Association of Physics Teachers winter meeting in Albuquerque, NM. )


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