High-speed camera

Imagine you have a camera that can take pictures really, really fast. So fast, it can take pictures of things that happen really quickly, like a balloon popping or a sneeze. This type of camera is called a high-speed camera.

Usually, cameras take pictures at a normal speed, like when you take a picture with your phone. But a high-speed camera can take pictures much faster. It's like when you play a video game and the character moves really fast, except the high-speed camera is taking pictures instead of playing a video game.

When things happen really quickly, like when a balloon pops, it can be hard to see exactly what's happening because it happens so fast. But a high-speed camera can take pictures of each little moment as it happens, like a slow motion video.

Scientists and engineers use high-speed cameras to study things that happen too fast to see with our eyes. They can use the pictures from the camera to see exactly what's happening and figure out how to make things better or safer.

So, a high-speed camera is like a super fast picture-taker that helps us see things that happen too quickly to see with our eyes.