Mechanical Universe and Beyond...
The Mechanical Universe Lase Disc Series is a set of 52 programs each about 30 minutes long. Each is a dramatization of historical background plus computer graphic illustrations of the subject of that particular program. They are well done and very watchable. The feel is like a short PBS show.
Program Titles
- 1: Introduction to the Mechanical Universe
- 2: The Law of hiling Bodies
- 3: Derivatives
- 4: Inertia
- 5: Vectors
- 6: Newton's Laws
- 7: Integration
- 8: The Apple and the Moon
- 9: Moving in Circles
- 10: 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: Kepler to Einstein
- 26: Harmony of the Spheres
- 27: Beyond the Mechanical Universe
- 28: Static Electricity
- 29: The Electric Field
- 30: Potential and Capacitance
- 31: Voltage, Energy and hrce
- 32: The 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: The Michelson-Morley Experiment
- 42: The 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: The Atom
- 50: Particles and Waves
- 51: From Atoms to Quarks
- 52: The Quantum Mechanical Universe