PASSIONATELY CURIOUS - Sebastian Martin, PhD

Noel came in for a Light Traces session this weekend. After experimenting with light traces for a long time I was excited to work with a POI artist! He is also a math teacher and I learned to know him through our hands-on teacher workshops here at the Explo.

Have a look at the first pictures we did (on flickr). The theme is “geometry” - which is also the topic of the exhibits I am currently working on. Click on the picture to see more samples and instructions:

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A while ago I did “Light Traces of Baseball” with Amy Snyder, a professional Photographer! Here is another Flickr Set: Light Traces of Baseball. Enjoy.

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Blinkies in the Physics Summer Institute. Click on the Photos, and the first video(!) of Light Traces or download the Hand-out .
There is also a FLICKR PICTURE GALLERY

Video of backward spinning wheel with two LEDs

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Does gravity pull equally on heavy and light objects? - A free fall experiment done with only a camera and a pulsed LED light. How to…
Find more light traces in this gallery:

Baseball is the focus of the next Exploratorium Quarterly (July 2007)! Have a look at Light Traces of Baseball featuring Dave Barker (he is the explOratorium’s baseball expert).

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The Teacher workshop Science of Baseball (02/24) was a lot of fun. Have a look at more pictures on Flickr:

There are new photos of “Physics and Music” on Flickr, the class I am co-teaching in Berkeley:
Photos of Harmonics. Photos by Andrew, Glory, and Steve