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Name |
Timescale |
Description |
File Size |
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Inner Planets |
Actual Elapsed Time: 10 years (315 million seconds) |
At this speed (roughly thirty million times faster than normal), Mercury and Venus whirl about the sun. The Earth, which completes its revolution about... |
104 K |
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Outer Planets |
Actual Elapsed Time: 100 years (3.2 billion seconds) |
The outer planets of the solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - take long periods of time to revolve around the sun. In... |
136 K |
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Potter |
Actual Elapsed Time: 6 minutes (360 seconds) |
A potter turns a lump of clay into a vase. By speeding up the action 100 times we can see the entire process of... |
160 K |
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Chairs |
Actual Elapsed Time: 8 minutes |
Kids at a community technology center put away their chairs after class. If only all chores went by so quickly... |
236K |
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Nerve Cell.2 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 200 microseconds (200 millionths of a second) |
Nerve pulses travel through the body by jumping from one nerve cell to another. This involves crossing a gap between nerve cells called a... |
244 K |
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Water Drop |
Actual Elapsed Time: 7/10ths of a second |
A drop of water falls into a dish of water and a plume of liquid forms. We think of water as soft and formless... |
244 K |
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Fire Cracker |
Approximate Elapsed Time: 2 microseconds (2 millionths of a second) |
A firecracker explodes, blasting its paper casing into tiny pieces. Explosions, like this one, are caused by intense chemical reactions, which produce tremendous amounts... |
252 K |
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Alaquash |
Actual Elapsed Time: 4 months (10,500,000 seconds) |
The annual process of spring regrowth takes place at a northern Wisconsin stream. Due to the cold climate, it takes a while for the... |
252 K |
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Cape Tides.2 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 2.8 hours (10,000 seconds) |
The tide rushes out of a bay on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. At normal speed, the flow of the tide can not be seen - it... |
256 K |
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Cat |
Actual Elapsed Time: 7/10ths of a second |
It's not surprising that cats like milk, but the way they use their tongue to slurp it up is hardly what you would suspect... |
260 K |
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