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