Mechanical Universe Index

Laser Disk #11 - Gravity, Electricity And Magnetism

1: Opening Sequence
2: Fundamental Constants Of Nature
3: A Physics "Hall Of Fame"
4: Star Field
5: Galaxy
6: Earth From Space
7: Ocean Waves
8: Sunrise
9: Roemer-Measurement Of C
10: Fizeau-Measurement Of C
11: Foucault-Measurement Of C
12: Michelson And The Speed Of Light
15: Fundamental Constant
16: Cavendish's Measurement Of G
17: Apparatus For Measuring G
18: Candish's Notebook
19: Millikan's Notebook
20: Faraday's Laboratory
21: First Electric Motor
22: Galaxy Field
23: Whimshurst Machine
24: Magnetism
25: Gravitational Attraction
26: Electrical Attraction And Repulsion
27: Magnetic Attraction And Repulsion
28: Theater Of Physics
29: Connection Between Electricity And Magneism
30: Outside Copenhagen Lecture Hall
31: Significnce Of Oersted's Discovery
32: Cavendish's Measurement Of G
33: Measurement Of Electric Force Constant
34: Measurement Of Magnetic Force Constant
35: Importance Of Fundamental Constants
36: Whimshurst Machine
37: Relation Of Electric And Magnetic Forces
38: Maxwell's Electromagnetism
39: Pure Versus Applied Research

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Laser Disk #12 - The Millikan Experiment

1: Opening Sequence
2: Cathode Ray Tube And Discovery Of Electron
3: Millikan Apparatus
4: Biography Of Millikan
5: History Of 20Th Century European Scientists
6: Thompson's Original Cloud Chamber Apparatus
8: Water Droplets In Millikan's Apparatus
9: Water Droplets
10: Millikan's Oil Droplet Apparatus
11: Algebra Of Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment
12: Sphere Falling In A Viscous Medium
13: Forces On Millikan's Oil Drop
14: Millikan's Apparatus
15: Finding The Charge Of An Electron
16: Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment
17: Millikan's Distinguished Career
18: Millikan As A Scientist
19: Millikan And The Scientific Method
20: Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

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Laser Disk #13 - Conservation Of Energy

1: Opening Sequence
2: Conservation Laws Of Physics
3: Various Nature Scenes
4: Solat Flare
5: Nuclear Bomb Explosion
6: Tornado
7: Conservation Of Energy
8: Track Meet, Aerobics, Weight Room
9: Definition Of Work
10: Definition Of Potential Energy
11: Galileo In Study
12: Galileo's Inclined Planes
13: Girl On A Swing
14: Work-Energy Theorem
15: Track Meet
16: Roller Coaster, Pendulum Clock
17: Inclined Planes And Energy
18: Track Meet, Pole Vault
19: Apollo Lunar Mission
20: Re-Discoveries Of America
21: The Continent Of Physics
22: Equivalence Of Heat And Energy
23: Joule's Apparatus
24: Aerobics, Weight Lifting
25: Conversion Of Kinetic Energy To Heat
26: Solar Flare, Earth From Space
27: Various Nature Scenes
28: Weight Lifting
29: Toys Losing Kinetic Energy
30: Weight Lifting
31: Conservation Of Energy

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Laser Disk #14 - Potential Energy

1: Opening Sequence
2: Goodstein's Comments On Equilibrium
3: Stability
4: Ions In A Salt Crystal
5: A House On Fire
6: Gym Workouts
7: Apollo Lunar Lift-Off
8: Fire Fighters Working On A House Fire
9: Vehicle In Motion, Chemical Potential Energy
10: Skydivers And Energy Conservation
11: Fire Fighters
12: Balls Rolling Down Inclines
13: Atomic Crystalline Structure
14: Fire Fighters Fighting Fires
15: Astronaut On Moon
16: Old Movie Of Lunar Voyage
17: Rocket Lift-Off
18: Work Required To Reach Escape Velocity
19: Fire Fighter's Rescue
20: Energy Conversions In Sporting Events
21: Fire Fighters And Window Washers In Equilibrium
22: Force And Potential Energy Vs Position
23: Potential Energy Of Pair Of Hydrogen Atoms
24: Potential Energy Of Fire Fighters On Ladder
25: Gym Workout
26: Machines Of Torture
27: Showing The Instruments Of Physics Torture

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Laser Disk #15 - Conservation Of Momentum

1: Opening Sequence
2: Descartes' Mechanical Universe
3: Pool Hall Physics
4: Europe In The Time Of Descartes
5: Execution Of Giordano Bruno
6: Galileo In Study
7: Descartes
8: Pool Hall Action
9: Newton In Conversation
10: Newton's Laws And Momentum - Track Meet
11: Pool Hall
12: Newton's Second Law And Momentum
13: Momentum Conserving Collisions
14: Pool Hall
15: Motion Of Center Of Mass
16: Pool Hall
17: Earth-Moon Motion About Center Of Mass
18: Three Body Interaction
19: Good Ship Newtonia - Cartoon
20: Pool Hall
21: Energy Conservation In Collisions
22: Pool Hall
23: Elastic Collision Of Two Equal Masses
24: Pool Hall
25: Head On Collision - Equal Masses
26: Pool Hall
27: Descartes' Vision
28: Tree As A Metaphor For Knowledge
29: Pool Hall
30: Collisions In Experimental Physics
31: Caltech's Kellogg Radiation Lab
32: Particle Accelerator Operation
33: Importance Of Collisions In Physics

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Laser Disk #16 - Harmonic Motion

1: Opening Sequence
2: Galileo's Observation Of Swinging Pendulum
3: Mass On Spring In Simple Harmonic Motion
4: The Physics Of Music
5: Forces On An Oscillating Mass - Real
6: Forces On An Oscillating Mass - Animation
7: Clocks And Harmonic Motion
8: Nature
9: Ancient Calendars
10: Egyptian Water Clock
11: Chinese Water Clock
12: European Semi-Mechanical Clocks
13: European Mechanical Clocks
14: Nature
15: Earth From Space
16: Track And Field - Hurdles
17: Penguins
18: Industry At Work
19: Fashions
20: A Clock Face
21: Newton's Laws And Simple Harmonic Motion
22: Mass On A Spring
23: Various Harmonic Oscillators
24: Differential Equation Of Shm
25: Mass On A Spring In Shm
26: Shadow Of Particle - Shm
27: Math Of Circular Motion
28: Math Of Shm
29: Mass On A Spring In Shm
30: Clock - Definition Of Radian
31: Spiral Galaxy
32: Circular And Simple Harmonic Motions
33: Ball Rolling In A Bowl
34: Ball Rolling In A Bowl - Energy Relations
35: Ball Rolling In A Bowl - Energy Relations
36: Clocks And Other Oscillators
37: Galileo In His Study
38: Newton In His Study
39: Clocks
40: Boating In The English Countryside
41: Navigation And Time Keeping
42: Nature Scenes
43: Clocks
44: Music And Harmonic Motion
45: Producing SHM

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Laser Disk #17 - Waves

1: Opening Sequence
2: The Physics Of Shattering A Wine Glass
3: Opening Of Tacoma Narrows Bridge
4: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Construction
5: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Resonance
6: Sunrise And Sunset
7: Resonating Musical Instruments
8: Resonance Of Piano Strings
9: Microscipic Model Of Tuning Fork And Air
10: Resonance Of Piano Strings
11: Equation Of Motion For A Mass On A String
12: Girl On A Swing
13: Oscillator Response To Periodic Motion
14: Voice Shattering A Wine Glass
15: Resonant Response Of An Oscillator
16: Voice Shattering A Wine Glass
17: Viscosity Of Glass - Euro And American
18: Rattling Windows
19: Calteck Seismic Lab
20: Engineering Models Of Buildings
21: Earthquake Damage
22: Telephone Wires As Aeolian Harps
23: Vortex Shedding From Wire
24: Telephone Wires As Aeolian Harps
25: Opening Of Tacoma Narrows Bridge
26: Destruction Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
27: Discovery Of The Van Karman Vortex
28: Wind Tunnel Test Of Bridge
29: Destruction Of Tacoma Narrows Bridge
30: Goodstein's Shattering Performance

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Laser Disk #18 - Waves

1: Opening Sequence
2: The Physics Of A Shattering A Glass Wine
3: Opening Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
4: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Construction
5: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Resonance
6: Sunrise And Sunset
7: Resonating Musical Instruments
8: Resonating Of Piano Strings
9: Microscopic Model Of Tuning Fork And Air
10: Resonance Of Piano Strings
11: Equation Of Motion For Mass On A String
12: Girl On A Swing
13: Oscillator Response To Periodic Force
14: Voice Shattering A Wine Glass
15: Resonant Response Of An Oscillator
16: Voice Shattering Of A Wine Glass
17: Viscosity Of Glass - European And American
18: Rattling Windows
19: Caltech Seismic Lab
20: Engineering Models Of Buildings
21: Earthquake Damage
22: Telephone Wires As Aeolian Harps
23: Vortex Shedding From Wire
24: Telephone Wires As Aeolian Harps
25: Opening Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
26: Destruction Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
27: Discovery Of The Von Karman Vortex
28: Wind Tunnel Test Of Bridge
29: Destruction Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
30: Goodstein's Shattering Performance

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Laser Disk #19 - Angular Momentum

1: Opening Sequence
2: Johannes Kepler's Life And Times
3: Spinning Galaxy
4: Bathtub Action
5: Historical Roots Of Astronomy
6: Aristotle's Universe
7: Circular Motion In Aristotle's Universe
8: Copernican Revolution
9: Kepler's Studies And Travels
10: Intorduction To Kepler's Laws
11: Bathtub Vortex
12: Earth And Clouds From Space
13: Limits Of Kepler's Discoveries
14: Kepler's Second Law
15: Vector Proof Of Kepler's Second Law
16: Bathtub Physics
17: Spinning Ice Skater
18: Pool Ball With Momentum
19: Physical Meaning Of Torque
20: Examples Of Torque
21: Derivation Of Angular Momentum Conservation
22: Example Of Momentum Conservation
23: Angular Momentum Definition And Application
24: Spinning Ice Skater
25: Bathtub Physics
26: Tornado
27: Firestorms
28: Red Spot Of Jupiter
29: Rings Of Saturn
30: Structure Of Solar System And Galaxies
31: Galactic Evolution
32: Tycho Brahe's Theories And Observations

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Laser Disk #20 - Torques And Gyroscopes

1: Opening Sequence
2: Torque And Angular Momentum Conservation
3: History Of Transportation
4: Torque Amd Angular Momentum Vectors
5: Torques Exerted In The Real World
6: Torque And Angular Momentum In Precession
7: Precession Of A Spinning Bicycle Wheel
8: Velocities In Wheel Rotation
9: A Precessing Bicycle Wheel
10: A Spinning Top
11: Torque And Angular Momentum Vectors
12: Heat And Energy Conservation
13: Gyroscopes, Tops, And Energy Conservation
14: A Nonprecessing Gyroscope
15: A Toy Gyroscope
16: Gyroscopes For Navigation
17: Torques And Circular Motion
18: A Precessing Bicycle Wheel
19: Rate Of Gyroscopic Precession
20: Gyroscopic Guidance Systems
21: Child Spinning A Globe
22: Earth As A Gyroscope; The Equinoxes
23: Observations Of The Equinoxes
24: The Drifting Of The Equinoxes
25: Ancient Beliefs Regarding The Pole Star
26: Earth And Polaris
27: Copernicus And Precession Of The Equinoxes
28: Earth As A Gyroscope; Precession Of Equinox
29: Earth As A Gyroscope
30: Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
31: Boy On A Bicycle
32: Newton's Discovery Of Key To The Universe