Rubber Band in Slow Motion
Shot at 1930 frames per second -- shows a rubber band initially stretched and suddenly released. It is an event that usually lasts for no more than a millisecond. It shows the propagation of longitudinal waves along the elastic and its bending, which results from dynamic buckling.
Journal Reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society A (DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1781)