Just about two hours ago I fired a shot that I had be working on for the past week. My experiment consisted of some pieces of soda-lime glass (cheap glass) that I put under pressure (3.0 GPa) to see how the index of refraction changed. The pressure was generated by shooting one piece of glass at 420 m/s (almost 1000 mph for you non-scientists) into a glass target. Get it? I shot some glass. Man, I crack myself up.
Anyway, this was the first experiment I did mostly by myself and everything worked! I got good data, the index of refraction I calculated makes sense and all looks to be well. I'm hoping to get another shot off before classes start and unless something goes terribly wrong with my next shot, I think I can make it.
If I feel motivated I'll post some before and after pictures of my experiment, but for now I will whet your hunger with this: Pictures of the 2.5 inch bore gas gun which I fired a shot on two weeks ago. If you look carefully, you can see my target in the second picture.
Dude, this r0x0rs. Your apparatus looks cooler than mine. Plus it's a gun of sorts. I hope the tomatoes tasted good. Oh, they got cool looking fireflies over here, right now. Have you ever seen a real life firefly? They are amazing
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