Mechanical Universe Index

  • Laser Disk #1 - Introduction To The Mechanical Universe 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Caltech As Physics Center 
    • 3: Scope Of Cosmology 
    • 4: The Science Of Mechanics 
    • 5: Physics Of Ordinary Matter 
    • 6: Earth From Space 
    • 7: Sunrise 
    • 8: Greeks Exhaustingly Calculate Pi 
    • 9: Aristotle's And Ptolemy's Astronomy 
    • 10: Renaissance Garden 
    • 11: Copernican Solar System 
    • 12: Introduction To Galuleo's Work 
    • 13: Inertia 
    • 14: Galileo At The Inquisition 
    • 15: Free Fall On The Moon 
    • 16: Galileo's Discoveries 
    • 17: Galileo's Trials 
    • 18: Kepler's Trials 
    • 19: Kepler's Three Laws 
    • 20: Kepler's Cosmological Model 
    • 21: Newton In Apple Orchard 
    • 22: Newton At His Desk 
    • 23: Modern Solar System Model 
    • 24: David And Goliath 
    • 25: Jules Verne Movie Footage 
    • 26: Gyroscopes And Angular Momentum 
    • 27: Angular Momentum 
    • 28: Clocks 
    • 29: Harmonic Motion And Circular Motion 
    • 30: Newton At His Desk 
    • 31: Introduction To Leibniz 
    • 32: Newton's Discoveries 
    • 33: Newton And Leibniz - Controversy 
    • 34: Caltch Kellogg Particle Accelerator 
    • 35: Millikan's Oil Drop Apparatus 
    • 36: Star Field 
    • 37: Cavendish's Apparatus 
    • 38: Chalky's Acsdemy 
    • 39: Descartes' Discoveries 
    • 40: Continent Of Physics 
    • 41: Conservation Of Energy 
    • 42: Rescue Of The Good Ship Irish Coffee 
    • 43: Shattering Effects Of Resonance 
    • 44: Apollo Astronauts 
    • 45: Earth And Moon 
    • 46: Observatory 
    • 47: Rules Of Physics 
    • 48: Discovering Our Place In The Universe 
    • 49: Credits 
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  • Laser Disk #2 - The Law Of Falling Bodies 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Bonaventure Hotel 
    • 3: Introduction To Falling Bodies 
    • 4: Dropping A Figurine,A Diver,A Leaf 
    • 5: Shuttle Landing 
    • 6: Child Dropping A Figurine, A Falling 
    • 7: Falling Bodies In Air And In Vacuum 
    • 8: Slow Motion Of A Penny And Feather Falling 
    • 9: Astronaut Dropping Objects On Moon 
    • 10: Galileo At His Desk 
    • 11: Compound Body Thought Experiment 
    • 12: Penny And Feather Falling In Vacuum 
    • 13: A Falling Leaf And Diver; Falling Objects 
    • 14: Galileo 
    • 15: Davinci And Manuscripts 
    • 16: Davinci's Interpretation Of Falling Bodies 
    • 17: Galileo's Interpretation Of Falling Bodies 
    • 18: Galileo In His Study 
    • 19: Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment 
    • 20: Galileo In His Study 
    • 21: Free-Fall Amusement Ride 
    • 22: Free-Fall Ride And Galileo's Experiment 
    • 23: Distance Fallen As Function Of Time 
    • 24: Average Speed As A Function Of Time 
    • 25: Amusement Park Rides 
    • 26: The Derivative 
    • 27: Derivatives At An Amusement Park 
    • 28: Speed As A Derivative 
    • 29: Examples Of Everyday Derivatives 
    • 30: Distance And Speed As Functions Of Time 
    • 31: Speed And Acceleration 
    • 32: A Penny And A Feather In Free Fall 
    • 33: Instantaneous Speed In Free Fall 
    • 34: Acceleration In Free Fall 
    • 35: Formulas Of Uniformly Accelerated Motion 
    • 36: Uniformly Accelerated Motion 
    • 37: Galileo 
    • 38: Nicole Oresme 
    • 39: Galileo's Notebook 
    • 40: Newton At His Desk 
    • 41: Leibniz At A Social Gathering 
    • 42: Acceleration Due To Gravity 
    • 43: Penny And Feather As Falling Bodies 
    • 44: Einstein 
    • 45: Accelertion, Speed And Distance 
    • 46: The Discoverers Of Calculus 
    • 47: Summary Of Falling Bodies 
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  • Laser Disk #3 - Derivatives 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Math And The Physical World 
    • 3: Math In Nature And Music 
    • 4: Galileo And Math 
    • 5: Biker On Rural Road 
    • 6: Examples Of Derivatives 
    • 7: Definition Of A Slope 
    • 8: Biker On Road 
    • 9: Fermat's Development Of Tangent 
    • 10: Descarte's Development Of Tangent 
    • 11: Newton And Leibniz : Discoverers Of Calculus 
    • 12: Newton And Leibniz : Discoverers Of Calculus 
    • 13: Biker Changing Slope 
    • 14: Slope At A Point 
    • 15: Freefall At An Amusement Park 
    • 16: Instantaneous Speed 
    • 17: Slope As A Derivative 
    • 18: Acme Derivative Machine 
    • 19: The Derivative As A Function 
    • 20: Derivaties Of Linear Functions 
    • 21: Derivatives Of Sinusoidal Functions 
    • 22: Another Derivative Machine 
    • 23: House Construction 
    • 24: Sum Rule Of Differentiation 
    • 25: House Construction 
    • 26: Product Rule Of Differentiation 
    • 27: Derivatives Of Powers 
    • 28: V!n`On Rural Road 
    • 29: Chain Rule Of Differentiation 
    • 30: Summary Of Rules Of Differentiation 
    • 31: Rocket Motion And Derivatives 
    • 32: Melody Of Mathematics 
    • 33: Uses Of Derivative Machine 
    • 34: Math As A Tool Of Physics 
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  • Laser Disk #4 - Inertia 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Intro To Inertia 
    • 3: Galileo In His Study 
    • 4: Galileo's Inclined Plane 
    • 5: Galileo's Telescope 
    • 6: People And Ships In Venice 
    • 7: Galileo's Telescope 
    • 8: Venice 
    • 9: Galileo's Telescopes In A Museum 
    • 10: Galileo's Drawings Of Celestial Objects 
    • 11: Apollo Lunar Flyover 
    • 12: Galileo At His Desk 
    • 13: Aristotle And Ptolemy 
    • 14: Galileo At His Desk 
    • 15: Renaissance Era Book Burning 
    • 16: Ptolemaic Universe 
    • 17: Copernican Universe 
    • 18: Renaissance Artwork 
    • 19: Objects Flying Off The Spinning Earth 
    • 20: Aristotle's World View 
    • 21: Objects Flying Off The Spinning Earth 
    • 22: Falling Leaf; Waves On The Beach 
    • 23: Ptolemaic Universe 
    • 24: Swinging Pendulum; Balls In Inclines 
    • 25: Galileo's Law Of Inertia; Inclined Planes 
    • 26: Galileo 
    • 27: Rene Descartes 
    • 28: Principle Of Inertia 
    • 29: People In A Boat; Relative Motion 
    • 30: Jupiter 
    • 31: Cart Being Pulled By Horse 
    • 32: Van On Road 
    • 33: Ball Falling From Tower 
    • 34: Ships 
    • 35: Ball Falling From Ship's Mast 
    • 36: Ball Dropped From Mast Of Moving Ship 
    • 37: Boys Throwing Ball In Renaissance Garden 
    • 38: Ball Falling From Tower 
    • 39: Tenaissance Stills 
    • 40: Galileo Meeting With Pope Urban Viii 
    • 41: Galileo's Book And The Inquisition 
    • 42: Galileo At The Inquisition 
    • 43: Galileo Under House Arrest In Florence 
    • 44: Summary Of Galileo's Last Digits 
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  • Laser Disk #5 - Vectors 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Alternate Descriptions Of Location 
    • 3: Alameda Coast Guard Center 
    • 4: Vector Definition And Convention 
    • 5: Vector Operations 
    • 6: Coast Guard Center 
    • 7: Yacht At Sea 
    • 8: Coast Guard Action 
    • 9: Rectangular Coordinate System 
    • 10: Street Scene 
    • 11: Link Between Algebra And Geometry 
    • 12: Invention Of Complex Numbers 
    • 13: Traingulation Using Vectors 
    • 14: Yacht At Sea 
    • 15: Displacement And Velocity Vectors 
    • 16: Coast Guard 
    • 17: Foundations Of Vectors 
    • 18: Greek Foundations Of Vectors 
    • 19: Newton's "Principia" 
    • 20: Hamilton's Quaternions 
    • 21: Early Applications Of Vectors 
    • 22: Yacht At Sea 
    • 23: Vector Dot Product 
    • 24: Yacht At Sea 
    • 25: Vector Cross Product 
    • 26: Yacht At Sea 
    • 27: Unit Vectors 
    • 28: Vector Operations Using Components 
    • 29: Yacht At Sea 
    • 30: Vector Operations: An Example 
    • 31: Coast Guard 
    • 32: Vector Navigation 
    • 33: Rescue At Sea 
    • 34: Vector Expressions Of Laws Of Physics 
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  • Laser Disk #6 - Newton's Laws 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Intro To F=Ma 
    • 3: Track And Field 
    • 4: Force And Acceleration Vectors 
    • 5: Divers 
    • 6: Newton's Second Law 
    • 7: Objects Falling In A Vacuum 
    • 8: Track And Field 
    • 9: Ball Dropped; Cannon Shot From A Cliff 
    • 10: Track And Field 
    • 11: Newton At His Desk 
    • 12: Galileo At His Desk 
    • 13: Newton's Laws And Accelerating Objects 
    • 14: Force And Momentum Changes In Track Events 
    • 15: Force And Rate Of Change Of Momentum 
    • 16: Newton Walking In Courtyard 
    • 17: Football Game 
    • 18: Trajectories In Track Events And Baseball 
    • 19: Apollo Liftoff 
    • 20: David And Goliath Demonstration Of Force 
    • 21: Track And Field 
    • 22: Fields In England; Newton At His Desk 
    • 23: Galileo At His Desk 
    • 24: Ball Falling From A Tower 
    • 25: Boys Throwing Ball In Garden 
    • 26: Components Of Force And Velocity 
    • 27: Newton At His Desk 
    • 28: Greek Philosophers 
    • 29: Track And Field 
    • 30: Renaissance Book Burning 
    • 31: Impetus Theory 
    • 32: Galileo At His Desk 
    • 33: Kepler, Huygens, And Descartes 
    • 34: Kepler At His Desk 
    • 35: English Garden; Cambridge University 
    • 36: Newton In Apple Orchard 
    • 37: Galileo In His Study 
    • 38: Newton In Apple Orchard 
    • 39: Baseball And Shotput As Projectiles 
    • 40: Component Of Velocity - Accelerated Motion 
    • 41: Trajectory Of A Cannonball 
    • 42: Galileo At His Desk 
    • 43: Newton At His Desk 
    • 44: Another David And Goliath Story 
    • 45: Equations Of Motion - Monkey And Hunter 
    • 46: Meaning Of Newton's Second Law 
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  • Laser Disk #7 - Integration 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Newton's Invention Of Clculus 
    • 3: Newton In Study 
    • 4: Leibniz At A Social Gathering 
    • 5: Newton In Study 
    • 6: Pre-Newtonian Mathematics 
    • 7: Greek Calculation Of Area 
    • 8: Greek Mathematicians 
    • 9: Aria By Method Of Exhaustion 
    • 10: Archimedes' Mathematical Discoveries 
    • 11: Archimedes' Quadrature Of A Parabolic Segment 
    • 12: Archimedes 
    • 13: Kepler On The Road 
    • 14: Kepler's Area And Volume Calculations 
    • 15: Analytic Geometry 
    • 15: Fermat's And Descartes' Contributions To 
    • 16: Algebra And Geometry 
    • 17: Fermat's Contribution To The Derivative 
    • 18: Newton's Life 
    • 19: Leibniz In Study 
    • 20: Newton In Study 
    • 21: Leibniz In Conversation 
    • 22: Newton's Life 
    • 23: Leibiz In Study 
    • 24: Newton In Study 
    • 25: Leibniz In Study 
    • 26: Area As A Limit Of A Sum 
    • 27: Leibniz In Study 
    • 28: Newton In Study 
    • 29: Area Of A Parabolic Segment Using Calculus 
    • 30: Archimedes And Quadrature 
    • 31: Connection Of Differentiation And Integration 
    • 32: First Theorem Of Calculus 
    • 33: Second Theorem Of Calculus 
    • 34: Mechanics Of Moving Bodies 
    • 35: Newton In Study 
    • 36: Leibniz's And Newton's Texts 
    • 37: Newton In Study 
    • 38: Leibniz 
    • 39: Newton 
    • 40: Leibniz 
    • 41: Newton 
    • 42: Leibniz 
    • 43: Integration Fundamentals 
    • 44: Leibniz At Social Gathering 
    • 45: Newton In Study 
    • 46: Newton's Human Shortcomings 
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  • Laser Disk #8 - The Apple And The Moon 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Newton's Law Of Universal Gravitation 
    • 3: Newton In Apple Orchard 
    • 4: Apollo Crew Liftoff 
    • 5: Newton In Apple Orchard 
    • 6: The Plague Years In England 
    • 7: Courtyard In Cambridge 
    • 8: Newton In Orchard 
    • 9: Copernicus 
    • 10: Stills Of Rome And Prussia 
    • 11: Copernicus 
    • 12: The Copernican System Of The Universe 
    • 13: Epicycles And Deferents 
    • 14: The Solar System 
    • 15: Renaissance Sculpture 
    • 16: Renaissance Painting 
    • 17: Galileo In His Study 
    • 18: Objects Falling In A Vacuum 
    • 19: Ball Rolling Down Galileo's Inclined Plane 
    • 20: Galileo 
    • 21: Kepler At Chalkboard 
    • 22: Kepler's Three Laws 
    • 23: Newton In Orchard 
    • 24: Newton At Desk 
    • 25: Apollo Launch 
    • 26: Gravitational Force 
    • 27: Astronauts In Space And On Moon 
    • 28: Gravitational Force Of Attraction 
    • 29: Force And Acceleration Due To Gravity 
    • 30: Galileo At His Desk 
    • 31: Newton At His Desk 
    • 32: Free Fall Amusement Park Ride 
    • 33: Astronauts On The Lunar Surface 
    • 34: Newton In Orchard 
    • 35: Cannon Firing 
    • 36: Astronauts Under Weightless Conditions 
    • 37: Newton 
    • 38: Acceleration Of The Moon Around The Earth 
    • 39: A Greek Mathematician 
    • 40: Newton 
    • 41: The Moon "Falling" Around The Earth 
    • 42: Pythagorean Theorem And The 1/20" 
    • 43: Newton 
    • 44: Apollo Launch 
    • 45: Astronauts Under Weightless Conditions 
    • 46: Newton 
    • 47: Newton's Accomplishments 
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  • Laser Disk #9 - Moving In Circles 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Ancient Applications Of Circular Motions 
    • 3: Sunrise 
    • 4: Ancient Applications Of Circles 
    • 5: Stonehenge 
    • 6: Circles In Ancient Architecture 
    • 7: Circles In Modern Architecture 
    • 8: Definition Of A Circle 
    • 9: Moon 
    • 10: Bust Of Plato 
    • 11: Uniform Circular Motion 
    • 12: Plato's Universe 
    • 13: Medieval European Life 
    • 14: Circular And Harmonic Motions 
    • 15: Components Of Circular Motion 
    • 16: Pre-Copernican Notions Of Planetary Motion 
    • 17: Compoind Circular Motion 
    • 18: Deferents And Epicycles 
    • 19: Appolonius' And Ptolemy's Astronomy 
    • 20: Copernican Universe 
    • 21: Lunar Motion 
    • 22: Amusement Park Rides 
    • 23: Velocity And Acceleration - Circular Motion 
    • 24: Newton's Principia 
    • 25: Velocity And Acceleration - Circular 
    • 26: Centripetal Acceleration 
    • 27: Personal Side Of Newton 
    • 28: Uses Of Force 
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  • Laser Disk #10 - Fundamental Forces 
    • 1: Opening Sequence 
    • 2: Newton's Second Law ; Fundamental Forces 
    • 3: Caltech Campus 
    • 4: Accelerator At Caltech 
    • 5: Scientists Of Fundamental Forces 
    • 6: Strong And Weak Nuclear Forces 
    • 7: Atomic Explosion, Solar Prominences, Galaxies 
    • 8: Caltech Accelerator 
    • 9: Commercial Kitchen 
    • 10: Earth - Moon Gravitational Force 
    • 11: Newton Talking On Bridge 
    • 12: Still Of Cavendish And His Book 
    • 13: Cavendish Gravitational Force Apparatus 
    • 14: Cavendish Experiment To Measure G 
    • 15: Lightning 
    • 16: Toaster 
    • 17: Lightning 
    • 18: Stills Of Franklin And Book 
    • 19: Commercial Kitchen 
    • 20: The Atomic Model And Electric Force 
    • 21: Solar System And Gravitational Forces 
    • 22: Gravitational And Electric Forces 
    • 23: Einstein 
    • 24: Nuclear Particles 
    • 25: Commercial Kitchen 
    • 26: Solar System 
    • 27: Commercial Kitchen 
    • 28: Salt Crystal 
    • 29: Commercial Kitchen 
    • 30: Ball Oscillating On End Of Spring 
    • 31: Commercial Kitchen 
    • 32: Balls Falling Through Viscous Liquids 
    • 33: Particle Accelerator At Caltech 
    • 34: Ion Traveling Through An Accelerator 
    • 35: Particle Accelerator At Caltech 
    • 36: Fusion Of Carbon And Helium 
    • 37: Computer Output Of An Accelerator Experiment 
    • 38: Newton's Laws And The Questions They Raise