"Real time" movie of the oscillations of a Bose-Einstein condensate. Frames in the movie were taken at a rate of 200 per second, and played back at 10 frames per second. Beginning in the first frame, the condensate was excited by a 3 cycle 30 Hz modulation of the trapping potential. Both the quadrupole-type "shape" oscillation and the dipole "sloshing" oscillation were excited. Near the end of the movie, the shape oscillation had damped away, but the undamped dipole oscillation continued. The damping time of the quadrupole-type mode has been determined to be about 250 msec.

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