Re: [Phys-l] Schlieren photography in high school laboratory

[Robert Teese <rbtsps@rit.edu>]

Loren Winters <winters@ncssm.edu> has supervised high school students  
in schlieren photography projects.  I found one of their photos at
<http://courses.ncssm.edu/hsi/special.htm>.

Andrew Davidhazy, who was mentioned in earlier posts to this thread,  
has been doing schlieren photography with undergraduate photo-tech  
students at RIT for many years.
<http://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-schlieren.html>

A few years ago one of my undergraduate physics majors and I  
developed a non-focusing schlieren video system that photographs  
larger subjects and potentially costs much less to build than one  
based on telescope mirrors.  However, you would need to make a  
background image on a large-format photographic printer such as a  
Durst Lambda to build the system.  Some of the larger photo finishing  
shops have this kind of printer.  The student, Matt Waters, made a  
web site about the method,
<http://livephoto.rit.edu/schlieren/>
and published a booklet,
<http://www.lulu.com/content/126587>.
Vern Lindberg posted a link to the abstract our paper earlier in the  
thread.

Bob Teese
Physics Department
Rochester Institute of Technology

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Alby Reid <alby@bleary-id.co.uk>
> Date: November 15, 2008 12:35:22 PM EST
> To: 'Forum for Physics Educators' <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
> Subject: [Phys-l] Schlieren photography in high school laboratory
> Reply-To: alby@bleary-id.co.uk, Forum for Physics Educators <phys- 
> l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
>
> Has anyone tried carrying out Schlieren photography (or even  
> videography) in
> a high-school-level-equipped laboratory? Any tales of success or woe?
>
>
> Alby