Mechanical Universe Index

Laser Disk #21 - Kepler's Three Laws

1: Opening Sequence
2: Kepler's Use Of Brahe's Data
3: Construction Of An Ellipse
4: Properties Of An Ellipse
5: Kepler's Early Life
6: Introduction To Tycho Brahe
7: Mars Surface Panorama (Viking)
8: Ptolemy's & Brahe's Model Of The Solar System
9: Copernican Solar System
10: Modern Solar System Model
11: Kepler In Thought
12: Determination Of The Earth's Orbit
13: Kepler In Study
14: Determination Of Orbit Of Mars
15: Ellipses In Everyday Scenes
16: Conic Sections - Qualitative
17: Greek Understanding Of Conics
18: Algebraic Definitions Of Conic Sections
19: Conic Sections - Qualitative
20: Ten-Meter Telescope
21: Parabolic Trajectories
22: Solar Promanences
23: Elliptical Orbit Of Mars
24: Kepler's Model Of The Solar System
25: Kepler's Three Laws
26: Scenes From The Thirty Years War
27: Astrology Charts
28: Kepler's Travels
29: Kepler's Model Of The Solar System

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Laser Disk #22 - The Kepler Problem

1: Opening Sequence
2: Newton's Solution To The Kepler Problem
3: Newton's Laws And Kepler's Orbits
4: Newton At His Desk
5: Michaelangelo's Ceiling In Sistine Chapel
6: Shakespeare's Creative Genius
7: Beethoven
8: Kepler's Orbits
9: Newton In Apple Orchard And At His Desk
10: Torque, Angular Momentum And Kepler's Laws
11: Kepler's Travels
12: Shakespeare
13: Newton At His Desk
14: Conic Sections And Angular Momentum
15: Sun Centered Universe
16: Biography Of Kepler's Life
17: Newton At His Desk
18: Newton's Laws And The Conic Sections
19: Conic Sections
20: Halley And Newton
21: The Sistine Chapel; Kepler's Work
22: Kepler, Galileo & Brahe

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Laser Disk #23 - Energy And Eccentricity

1: Opening Sequence
2: Conic Sections And Planetary Motion
3: Modern Telescope
4: Kepler And Galileo At Work
5: Pool Hall Action
6: Galileo In Study
7: Galileo's Inclined Plane
8: Galileo's Inclined Plane - Replay
9: Tycho Brahe's Observations
10: Kepler's Use Of Brahe's Data
11: Kepler's Three Laws
12: Newton's Explanation Of Kepler's Laws
13: Algebraic Equation For Orbital Motion
14: Conic Sections -Qualitative
15: Energy Plots For Planetary Motion
16: Ptolemy's Quest For Orbits
17: Brahe's Observatory And Apparatus
18: Galileo And His Telescope
19: Radio Telescope
20: Discovery Of Pluto
21: Modern Solar System Model
22: Energy Plots For Planetary Motion
23: Energy And Eccentricity
24: Kepler In Study
25: Brahe And Kepler Dining
26: Energy, Eccentricity And Conics
27: Rings Of Saturn
28: Ten-Meter Telescope
29: Reflecting Telescope - Polishing Objective
30: Mount Palomar Observatory
31: Newtons Important Predecessors
32: Power Of Knowledge

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Laser Disk #24 - Navigating In Space

1: Opening Sequence
2: Practical Applications, Celestial Mechanics
3: Rocket Lift-Off
4: Mariner, Viking, And Voyager Spacecrafts
5: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
6: Planetary Motion
7: Rocket Lift-Off
8: Earth And Moon
9: Spacecraft Attaining Orbitaround Mars
10: Earth From Space
11: Hohman Transfer Orbits
12: Hohman Transfer Orbits
13: Launching A Space Craft
14: Launch Opportunities
15: Launch Opportunities
16: Launch Opportunities - Venus, Jupiter , Mars
17: Launch Window
18: Launch Windows To Venus And Mars
19: View From An Alien Planet
20: Mars Surface Photos
21: Viking Lander On Mars
22: Palnetary Orbits And Voyager Trajectory
23: Voyager Lift-Off
24: Gravity Assist
25: Gravity Assist
26: Gravity Asssist
27: Voyager Mission
28: Voyager's Gravity Assist
29: Baseball; Energy Analogy In Space
30: Velocity Of Voyager
31: Velocity Of Voyager Relative To The Sun
32: Voyager Spacecraft Passing Saturn
33: Saturn's Rings
34: Saturn's Rings
35: Satellites Near Saturn's F Ring
36: Voyager Passing Saturn
37: Saturn's F Ring And Sheperding Moons
38: Telescope
39: Rings Around Uranus
40: Sheperding Moons
41: Saturn's F Ring And Sheperding Moons
42: Kepler At The Chalkboard
43: Newton Walking In Cambridge, England
44: Rocket Lift-Off
45: Voyager Traveling Through Rings Of Saturn
46: Goodstein's Theory On The Rings Of Saturn

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Laser Disk #25 - Kepler To Einstein

1: Opening Sequence
2: Galileo's Theory Of The Tides
3: Galileo And Lewis Carroll
4: Ocean Waves
5: Galileo At The Inquisition
6: Ocean Waves
7: Earth-Moon System - Tides
8: Setting Sun
9: Earth And Moon
10: Galileo In Study
11: Kepler's "Harmony Of The Spheres"
12: Newton In Study
13: Kepler's Three Laws
14: Derivation Of Kepler's Third Law
15: Ocean Waves
16: Modern Solar System Model
17: Newton In Study
18: Intro To Einstein
19: Free Fall In Vacuum
20: Derivation Of Law Of Falling Bodies
21: Inertial Mass
22: Gravitational Mass
23: Newton Takes A Snack
24: Einstein Socializing
25: Principle Of Equivilance
26: Einstein Photos
27: Principle Of Equivilance
28: Einstein Photos
29: Bending Of Light
30: Einstein's Letter Predicting The Bending Of Light
31: Hale, Eddington, And Einstein
32: Stars
33: Inertial Mass In Rocket Firing
34: Geodesics
35: Einstein's Letter Predicting The Bending Of Light
36: Modern Solar System Model
37: Curved Space-Time
38: Einstein Photos
39: Stars
40: Newton In Study
41: Stellar Explosion
42: Black Hole Dynamics
43: The Universe As A Black Hole

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Laser Disk #26 - Harmony Of The Spheres

1: Opening Sequence
2: Kepler's Music Of The Spheres
3: Harmonies Of Planetary Motion
4: Harmony Of The Universe"
5: Sunrise
6: Pythagorean Theorem
7: Law Of Falling Bodies
8: Pythagorean Harmonies
9: Criticism Of Pythagorean Harmonies
10: Support For The Copernican View
11: Kepler's Music
12: Harmonic Motion Insights
13: Resonance
14: Shattering Effects Of Resonance
15: Crystals
16: Atomic Structure Of Nacl
17: Potential Energy Between Atoms
18: Leibniz's And Newton's Interactions
19: Newton's Second Law
20: Newton In Orchard
21: Applications Of Newton's Second Law
22: Applications Of Newton's Second Law
23: N 2 L - Projectiles
24: Terrestrial And Celestial Physics
25: Conic Sections And Planetary Motions
26: Examples Of N 2 L
27: Newton's Laws As Differential Equations
28: Trajectory Of A Cannonball
29: Orbiting Cannonball
30: Newton In Orchard
31: Copernican Universe
32: Gravity-Free Earth
33: Galileo At The Inquisition
34: Greeks Calculate Pi
35: Aria Of A Parabolic Segment
36: Amusement Park Falling Bodies
37: Derivative As A Limit
38: Newton-Leibniz Interactions
39: Rocket Launch
40: Constant Of Integration
41: Derivation Of Momentum Conservation
42: Conservation Of Angular Momentum
43: Constant Angular Momentum
44: Work, Potential And Kenetic Energies
45: Kinetic Energy And Heat
46: Heat, Kinetic And Potential Energy
47: Energy And Planetary Orbits
48: Keplers Song Of Heavenly Motion
49: Concluding Remarks

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Laser Disk #27 - Beyond The Mechanical Universe

1: Opening Sequence
2: Einstein's Use Of Mathematics
3: Einstein And Levi-Civita
4: Relationship Of Math And Physics
5: Portrait Of Ben Franlin
6: Ffaraday's Contributions To Science
7: Newton In Orchard
8: Action At A Distance
9: Electric Lines Of Force
10: Magnetic Lines Of Flux
11: Electric Dipole Field Lines
12: Faraday At Royal Institution
13: Maxwell In Study
14: Maxwell's Equations
15: Ben Franklin Taking A Walk
16: Leiden Jars
17: Franklin's Discovery Of Charge
18: Las Vegas Night Scene
19: Electric Response Of Frog Legs
20: Portrait Of Volts
21: Invention Of The Electric Battery
22: Energy Sources In 19Th Century
23: Invention Of The Electric Motor
24: Electromagnetic Induction
25: Portrait Of Tesla
26: Introducing Thomas Edison
27: Edison's Inventions And Ideas
28: Michelson-Morley Experiment
29: Micehlson-Morley Null Result
30: Implications Of Special Relativity
31: Relativity Of Simultaneity
32: Time Dilation; Length Contraction
33: Twin Paradox
34: Ion In Particle Accelerator
35: Bohr Hydrogen Atom
36: Einstein's And Live Civita's Letters

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Laser Disk #28 - Static Electricity

1: Opening Sequence
2: Introduction To Static Electricity
3: Magic Act
4: Ancient Greeks
5: Static Electricity Demonstration
6: Wimshurst Generator
7: Franklin And Electric Charge
8: Coulomb And His Charge Experiment
9: Electric Charge And Coulomb's Law
10: Leyden Jar
11: Earth From Space
12: Franklin In His Study
13: Magic Act
14: Atomic Structure
15: Magic Act
16: Salt Crystal
17: Waves On The Beach
18: Magic Act
19: Smelting Furnace
20: Conductivity
21: Atoms In A Metal
22: Charging By Induction
23: A Gold Leaf Electroscope
24: Electroscope Charged By Induction
25: Electroscope Charged By Conduction
26: Electroscope Charged By Conduction
27: Magic Act
28: Grounding A Conductor
29: Magic Act
30: Static Electricity Machines
31: Van De Graff Generator
32: Tandem Van De Graff Accelerator
33: Tandem Van De Graff Accelerator
34: Accelerator's Computer Display
35: Franklin Walking In The Rain
36: Lightning
37: Charging By Induction
38: Charging By Induction
39: Charging By Induction
40: Wimshurst Generator
41: Leyden Jar
42: Leyden Jar
43: Leyden Jar
44: Magic Act
45: Electricity Demonstrations
46: Van Marem's Electrostatic Machine
47: Volta's Discovery

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Laser Disk #29 - The Electric Field

1: Opening Sequence
2: Faraday's Life And Accomplishments
3: Faraday In Lab
4: Measurement Of Electric Force
5: Law Of Universal Gravitation
6: Flux And Inverse Square Law
7: Faraday's Mentor
8: Faraday's Early Accomplishments
9: Oersted's Influence On Faraday
10: First Electric Motor
11: Electric Field Examples
12: Definition Of The Electric Field
13: Faraday's Development
14: Lines Of Force
15: Faraday At The Royal Institution
16: Mathematics Of Gauss
17: Gauss's Law
18: Three Inverse Square Laws
19: Faraday In Study
20: Charge In A Conductor
21: Electroscope And Faraday Cage
22: Radio In A Faraday Cage
23: Electric Field Due To Spherical Charge
24: Earth From Space
25: Newton In Study
26: Faraday In Study
27: Introducing Maxwell
28: Review Of Lines Of Force
29: Lines Of Force As Mental Scaffolding

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Laser Disk #30 - Potentials And Capacitors

1: Opening Sequence
2: Mushenbrook And The Leyden Jar
3: Franklin Takes A Walk
4: English Electricity Laboratory
5: Franklin Describing Electrical Effects
6: Work, Potential Energy, And Difference
7: Franklin's Electric Fluid
8: Franklin's Book On Electricity
9: Charging Batteries
10: Franklin's Printing Press
11: Frankling Strolling In The Garden
12: Franklin In Study; His Accomplishments
13: Electric Field Near Charges
14: Difference In Potential Between Charges
15: Franklin At His Desk
16: Newton In His Study
17: Electric Forces
18: Potential, Electric Field, And Capacitance
19: Franklin's Study Of Lightning In The Rain
20: Franklin's Book Explaining Lightning Rod
21: Franklin In A Garden & His Lighning Shock
22: Franklin's Explanation Of The Leyden Jar
23: Capacitors And Electric Fields
24: Capacitors In Series And In Parallel
25: Franklin - A Statesman And Public Servant
26: Franklin's Invention Of The Lightning Rod