Mechanical Universe Index

Laser Disk #31 - Voltage, Energy And Force

1: Opening Sequence
2: Relationship Between Matter And Energy
3: Las Vegal Strip At Night
4: Nevada Countryside
5: Contour Map
6: Electrostatic Contour Map
7: Biker On An Incline
8: Biker In An Electric Field
9: Nevada Countryside
10: Electric Field And Potential
11: Dipole Field And Potential
12: Constant Electric Potential
13: Las Vegas
14: Ben Franklin
15: Early Light Bulb
16: Development Of Neon Light
17: Definition Of Electric Potential
18: Application Of Voltage
19: Electrostatic Generators
20: Particle Accelerator
21: Powerlines Leading To Las Vegas
22: Atomic Model
23: Las Vegas
24: Van De Graff Generator
25: Strength Of Electric Forces
26: Las Vegas
27: Franklin On A Walk
28: Las Vegas
29: Ionization Due To Generator
30: Las Vegas
31: Van Marum's Generator
32: Battery Assembly Line
33: Hoover Dam
34: Las Vegas
35: Early Atomic Theories

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Laser Disk #32 - The Electric Battery

1: Opening Sequence
2: A Lemon Battery
3: Stranded In The Desert
4: Making A Battery
5: Potential Inside A Metal Cage
6: Volta And His Battery
7: Volta's Electrophorus
8: The Electrophorus
9: Volta's Electrophorus
10: Windmills
11: Wimshurst Generator
12: Volta's Scientific Reputation
13: Laplace And Lavoisier
14: Franklin Walking
15: Volta's Stay In Paris
16: Volta's Return To Italy
17: Galvani's Animal Electricity
18: Electric Impulse Making Frog's Legs Jump
19: Galvani's Electrical Signals
20: Galvani's Animals
21: Interpretation Of Galvani's Experiment
22: A Frog
23: Electric Impulse Making Frog's Legs Jump
24: Volta's Electrifying Question
25: Work Functions; How A Battery Works
26: Volta
27: Volta's Pile
28: How To Get A Charge Out Of An Electric Eel
29: How A Battery Works
30: Volta's Electric Pile
31: Napoleon
32: Volta's Electric Battery
33: Manufacturing Electric Batteries
34: Cars On A Modern Street
35: Volta's Life And A Lemon Battery

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Laser Disk #33 - Electric Circuits

1: Opening Sequence
2: Lectures At The Royal Institution
3: Parker Dam
4: Water Wheel, Well, Aquaduct
5: Electric Generator
6: Los Angeles Downtown
7: Parker Dam
8: Simple Electric Circuit
9: Defintion Of Ampere
10: River
11: Volta's Battery
12: First Electric Lamp
13: Telegraph Desk
14: Steam Locomotive
15: Charles Wheatstone
16: George Simon Ohm
17: Ohm's Law
18: Edison's Lab
19: Steam Locomotive
20: Aquaducts
21: Resistors In Series And In Parallel
22: Water Pipe Design
23: Marbles In Viscous Liquids
24: Electrons In A Metal
25: Marbles In Liquids
26: Electrons In Metals - Defects; Applied Fields
27: Edison's Early Lights
28: Supercomputer
29: Power In A Circuit
30: Parker Dam
31: Robert Kirchoff
32: Kirchoff's Laws
33: Energy Conservation And Kirchoff's Second Law
34: Lake Havasu And Parker Dam
35: Capacitive Discharge
36: Lage Havasu And Parker Dam
37: Los Angeles Downtown
38: Lectures At The Royal Institution

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Laser Disk #34 - Magnetism

1: Opening Sequence
2: Gilbert's Discoveries Regarding Magnetism
3: Earth And Planets From Space
4: Penguins At The South Pole
5: The Earth's Aurora
6: The Effect Of Temperature On Magnetism
7: The South Pole
8: Force Alws For Magnetic Poles
9: Astronomical Scenes
10: Gilbert's Contributions To Magnetism
11: Magnetic Fields
12: The Earth's Dipole Field
13: Marine Using A Compass
14: A Magnet In A Magnetic Field
15: Marine Using Compass
16: Scientist Discussing Earth's Magnetic Field
17: Solar Wind And Earth's Magnetic Field
18: Electric Flux
19: Gauss's Law
20: Magnetic Flux
21: Gauss's Law For Magnetism
22: Earth's Magnetic Flux
23: Scientist Discussing Earth's Magnetic Field
24: The Earth's Magnetic Field
25: Earth's Early Explorers
26: Scientist Discussing Earth's Magnetic Field
27: Planet Exlipsing A Star
28: Scientist Diacussing Sunspots
29: Sunspots
30: Scientist Discussing Sunspots
31: Sunspots And Solar Prominences
32: Scientist Discussing The Solar Wind
33: Solar Corona And The Solar Wind
34: Scientist Discussing The Solar Wind
35: The Lorentz Force
36: Van Allen Radiation Belts
37: Aurora
38: Scientist Discussing Earth's Magnetic Field
39: Other Planet's Magnetic Fields
40: Scientist Discussing Venus
41: Earth From Space
42: Peregrinus's Contributions To Magnetism

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Laser Disk #35 - The Magnetic Field

1: Opening Sequence
2: Ampere's Life And Times
3: Magnetic Military Maneuvers
4: Oersted's Experiment
5: Magnetic Military Maneuvers
6: Execution Of Ampere's Father
7: Ampere's Academic Career
8: Magnetic Field Due To Current
9: Magnetic Fields - Loop, Solenoid And Toroid
10: Magnetic Military Maneuvers
11: Oersted's Experiment
12: Magnetic Force Between Currents
13: Magnetic Force Between Currents
14: Magnetic Fields Of Toroid And Bar Magnet
15: Magnetic Field Of Iron Atom
16: Magnetic Field Of The Earth
17: Magnetic Military Maneuvers
18: Faraday And Ampere Compared
19: Conservative Electrostatic Field
20: Ampere's Law
21: Maxwell In Study
22: Maxwell's Equations
23: Magnetic Military Maneuvers
24: Atomic Basis Of Magnetism

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Laser Disk #36 - Vector Fields And Hydrodynamics

1: Opening Sequence
2: Fields Of Force
3: Astronomical Scenes
4: Waves
5: Water Flowing In A River
6: Whirlpool Vortex
7: Water In A River
8: Child In A Bathtub With A Whirlpool
9: Vector Fields In Space
10: Water Flowing In A River
11: Laws Of Electricity And Magnetism
12: Water Flowing Down A River
13: Large Water Pipes
14: Water Flux
15: Electric Flux
16: Magnetic Flux
17: Large Water Pipes
18: Flux Through A Closed Surface
19: Water Flowing Down A River
20: Light And Electric Flux
21: Water Flowing Down A River
22: Fluid In Circular Motion
23: Votex Flow In A Water
24: Votex In A Bathtub
25: Hurricane
26: Circulation Of Water
27: Votex Flow In Water
28: Votex Flow In Awater
29: Magnetic Field Around A Wire
30: Hurrican
31: Vortex Flow In Awater
32: Circulation Around A Vortex
33: Water Flowing Downfa River
34: Magnetic And Electric Fields
35: Water Flowing Down A River
36: Fields In A Capacitor And A Solenoid
37: Fluid Flow In Water
38: Energy In Electric And Magnetic Fields
39: Water Flowing Down A River
40: Votex Rings

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Laser Disk #37 - Electromagnetic Induction

1: Opening Sequence
2: A Moving Magnet Produces Electric Current
3: A Windmill Farm
4: Dutch Windmills
5: Coal Furnace And Steam Engines
6: London's Royal Institution
7: Faraday's Laboratory
8: Faraday's Electric Motor
9: Faraday's Notes
10: Current In A Coil Producing Magnetic Field
11: Force On A Charge Moving In Magnetic Field
12: A Loop Moving In The Field Of A Bar Magnet
13: Induced Current By Magnet Moving In Coil
14: Curreht In Coil Inducing Current In Another
15: Magnetic Flux Through A Surface
16: Edison's Laboratory
17: Edison's Electric Power Generating Plant
18: Loop Of Wire Rotaring In Magnetic Field
19: Edison's Electric Power Generating Plant
20: Portrait Of Tesla
21: Current Due To A Chahging Magnetic Flux
22: Edison's Power Generating Plsnt And Furnace
23: Modern Hydroelectric Power Plant
24: Windmill Farm
25: Self-Induction And A Solenoid In A Circuit
26: Faraday's Electric Motor
27: London's Royal Institution
28: Electric And Magnetic Fields
29: Windmill Farm
30: Current Due To Changing Magnetic Field

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Laser Disk #38 - Alternating Currents

1: Oppening Sequence
2: Generating Power With Alternating Current
3: Niagara Falls
4: An Alternating-Current Circuit
5: Tesla's Ac Versus Edison's Dc
6: Ac Versus Dc Circuits
7: Portrait Of Tesla
8: Edison And His Inventions
9: Alternating Lc Circuit
10: Mechanical Resonance Shattering Aglass
11: A House And Television Shows
12: Electrical Analogy To A Madd On A Spring
13: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
14: Frequency Effects: Rc, Lc, And Rlc Circuits
15: Westinghouse And Edison's War Of Currents
16: Hydroelectric Power Plant
17: Transmitting Electric Power
18: Effects Of Alternating Current Through Coil
19: Automobile Assembly Plant
20: Edison's Electric Power Generators
21: City Streets And Edison's Laboratory
22: Airplane Lift-Off
23: Old Radio
24: Tesla's Inventions
25: Niagara Falls
26: Tesla's Shaping Of The World

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Laser Disk #39 - Maxwell's Equations

1: Opening Sequence
2: Historical Significance Of Maxwell's Work
3: Maxwell In Study
4: Newton In Study
5: Faraday Leaving The Royal Institution
6: Relationship Between Magnetism And Currents
7: Induced Current
8: Maxwell In Study
9: University Of Cambridge
10: Faraday's Speculation On Light
11: Electric Field Of Charged Particles
12: Coupled Mechanical Oscillators
13: Speculation On The Nature Of Light
14: Properties Of Waves
15: Fundamental Physical Constants
16: Magnetic And Electric Force Constants
17: Maxwell In Study
18: Explanation Of Saturn's Rings
19: Kinetic Theory Of Gases
20: Maxwell's Philosophy Of Science
21: Maxwell's Move To King's College
22: Maxwell In Conversation
23: Gauss's Law For Electricity
24: Gauss's Law For Magnetism
25: Ampere's Law
26: Faraday's Law
27: Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
28: Star Field
29: Maxwell In Study
30: Approaching The Displacement Current
31: Maxwell In Study
32: Electric Flux And Current
33: Maxwell In Study
34: Changing Electric Flux
35: Implications Of Maxwell's Equations
36: Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
37: Maxwell's Equations
38: Maxwell In Study
39: Maxwell's Poetry

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Laser Disk #40 - Optics

1: Opening Sequence
2: Light, Electric And Magnetic Field
3: An Eye Examination
4: Light Waves
5: Eye Chart
6: Galileo, His Telescope, Microscope,Sketches
7: Eyeglasses
8: Refraction And Dispersion
9: Newton At His Desk
10: Newton's Book On Optics
11: Huygen's Wave Theory Of Light
12: Light Seen As Electric And Magnetic Waves
13: Water Waves
14: Mechanical Waves
15: Electromagnetic Waves
16: Electromagnetic Spectrum
17: Lines Of Force About Electric Charges
18: Faraday And His Lines Of Force
19: Oscillating Electric Charges Creating Waves
20: Maxwell's Electromagnetic Spectrum
21: Huygen's Light Waves
22: Young's Proof Of Light As A Wave
23: Young's Idea Of Wave Interference
24: Thomas Young
25: Young's Interference Experiment
26: Young's Interference Experiment
27: Young's Interference Fringes
28: Diffraction
29: Shadows
30: Diffraction
31: Light Casting Shadows On Wall
32: Lake Scene
33: Light Waves Encountering Electric Charges
34: Woman's Reflection In A Mirror
35: Refraction In Glass; Least Time Principle
36: An Eye Examination
37: Dispersion
38: Galileo At His Desk
39: Newton In His Study
40: Reflecting Telescope
41: Reflecting Telescope
42: Radar Screen
43: Optical Reflector Telescope
44: Eye Chart
45: Stars And Galaxy
46: The Luminiferous Ether