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| Material Type: | Secondary (senior high) school, Videorecording |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David L Goodstein; Jack Arnold; Peter F Buffa; Aaron Fletcher; California Institute of Technology.; Southern California Consortium for Community College Television.; Annenberg/CPB Project.; CitiCam Digital. |
| ISBN: | 1576806863 9781576806869 1576806936 9781576806937 |
| OCLC Number: | 52960514 |
| Credits: | Producer and director, Peter Buffa ; animated graphics, Jim Blinn ; story editor, Jack Arnold ; consultants, Dave A. Campbell, Judith Goodstein. DVD produced by Annenberg/CPB and CitiCam Digital, producer, Bob Schapiro. |
| Performer(s): | Host, David Goodstein. |
| Target Audience: | High school and college students. |
| Description: | 2 parts (52 programs) on 12 videodiscs (780 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD. |
| Contents: | Part I. 1. Introduction to the mechanical universe -- 2. The law of falling bodies -- 3. Derivatives -- 4. Inertia -- 5. Vectors -- 6. Newton's laws -- 7. Integration -- 8. The apple and the moon -- 9. Moving in circles --10. The fundamental forces -- 11. Gravity, electricity, magnetism -- 12. The Millikan experiment -- 13. Conservation of energy -- 14. Potential energy --15. Conservation of momentum -- 16. Harmonic motion -- 17. Resonance -- 18. Waves -- 19. Angular momentum -- 20. Torques and gyroscopes -- 21. Kepler's three laws -- 22. The Kepler problem -- 23. Energy and eccentricity -- 24. Navigating in space -- 25. From Kepler to Einstein -- 26. Harmony of the spheres. Part II. 27. Beyond the mechanical universe -- 28. Making electricity -- 29. The electric field -- 30. Potential and capacitance -- 31. Voltage, energy and force -- 32. Electric battery -- 33. Electric circuits -- 34. Magnetism -- 35. The magnetic field -- 36. Vector fields and hydrodynamics -- 37. Electromagnetic induction -- 38. Alternating current -- 39. Maxwell's equations -- 40. Optics -- 41. Michelson-Morley experiment -- 42. Lorentz transformation -- 43. Velocity and time -- 44. Mass, momentum, energy -- 45. Temperature and gas laws -- 46. Engine of nature -- 47. Entropy -- 48. Low temperatures -- 49. Atom -- 50. Particles and waves -- 51. From atoms to quarks --52. The quantum mechanical universe. |
| Other Titles: | Mechanical universe Annenberg/CPB collection. |
| Responsibility: | produced by California Institute of Technology and the Southern California Consortium. |
Abstract:
Contains introductory physics and traces the drama of scientific discovery using a mixture of archival footage and historical backdrops to introduce the great thinkers of the past from Copernicus to Einstein.
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by regbain updated 2012-09-15
