The Mechanical Universe
The Mechanical Universe... And Beyond, is a 52-part telecourse filmed at the California Institute of Technology, and produced by Caltech and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications. The series introduces university level physics, covering topics from Copernicus to quantum mechanics.
Produced starting in 1985, the videos make heavy use of historical dramatizations and visual aids to explain physics concepts. The latter were state of the art at the time, incorporating almost 8 hours of computer animation created by computer graphics pioneer Jim Blinn. Each episode opens and closes with a "phantom" lecture by Caltech professor David Goodstein. After more than a quarter century, the series is still often used as a supplemental teaching aid, for its clear explanation of fundamental concepts such as special relativity.
The Mechanical Universe lectures are actual freshman physics lectures from Physics 1a and 1b courses at the California Institute of Technology. The room seen in the videos is the Bridge lecture hall.
The series can be purchased, or viewed by streaming from the Annenberg website, or can be viewed on other video streaming sites such as YouTube and Google Video.
First Air Date: Jan 01, 1985
Last Air date: Jan 01, 1985
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 52 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 8.80/10 by 2.00 users
Popularity: 1.373
Language: English
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Season
Season 1
Episode
Introduction
The Law of Falling Bodies
Derivatives
Inertia
Vectors
Newton's Laws
Integration
The Apple and the Moon
Moving in Circles
Fundamental Forces
Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism
The Millikan Experiment
Conservation of Energy
Potential Energy
Conservation of Momentum
Harmonic Motion
Resonance
Waves
Angular Momentum
Torques and Gyroscopes
Kepler's Three Laws
The Kepler Problem
Energy and Eccentricity
Navigating in Space
Kepler to Einstein
Harmony of the Spheres
Beyond the Mechanical Universe
Static Electricity
The Electric Field
Potential and Capacitance
Voltage, Energy, and Force
The Electric Battery
Electric Circuits
Magnetism
The Magnetic Field
Vector Fields and Hydrodynamics
Electromagnetic Induction
Alternating Current
Maxwell's Equations
Optics
The Michelson-Morley Experiment
The Lorentz Transformation
Velocity and Time
Mass, Momentum, Energy
Temperature and Gas Laws
Engine of Nature
Entropy
Low Temperatures
The Atom
Particles and Waves
From Atoms to Quarks
The Quantum Mechanical Universe
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