This preview introduces revolutionary ideas and heroes from Copernicus to Newton, and links the physics of the heavens and the earth.

1. Introduction
2. The Law of Falling Bodies
3. Derivatives
4. Inertia
5. Vectors
6. Newton's Laws
7. Integration
8. The Apple and the Moon
9. Moving in Circles
10. Fundamental Forces
11. Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism
12. The Millikan Experiment
13. Conservation of Energy
14. Potential Energy
15. Conservation of Momentum
16. Harmonic Motion
17. Resonance
18. Waves
19. Angular Momentum
20. Torques and Gyroscopes
21. Kepler's Three Laws
22. The Kepler Problem
23. Energy and Eccentricity
24. Navigating in Space
25. Kepler to Einstein
26. Harmony of the Spheres
27. Beyond the Mechanical Universe
28. Static Electricity
29. The Electric Field
30. Potential and Capacitance
31. Voltage, Energy and Force
32. The Electric Battery
33. Electric Circuits
34. Magnetism
35. The Magnetic Field
36. Vector Fields and Hydrodynamics
37. Electromagnetic Induction
38. Alternating Current
39. Maxwell's Equations
40. Optics
41. The Michelson-Morley Experiment
42. The Lorentz Transformation
43. Velocity and Time
44. Mass, Momentum, Energy
45. Temperature and Gas Laws
46. Engine of Nature
47. Entropy
48. Low Temperatures
49. The Atom
50. Particles and Waves
51. From Atoms to Quarks
52. The Quantum Mechanical Universe
53. Siggraph 1984 - Mechanical Universe Demo
54. Siggraph 1985 - Mechanical Universe Demo
55. Siggraph 1986 - Mechanical Universe Demo
56. Siggraph 1987 - Mechanical Universe Demo

“The Mechanical Universe,” is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course.

Each program in the series opens and closes with Caltech Professor David Goodstein providing philosophical, historical and often humorous insight into the subject at hand while lecturing to his freshman physics class. The series contains hundreds of computer animation segments, created by Dr. James F. Blinn, as the primary tool of instruction. Dynamic location footage and historical re-creations are also used to stress the fact that science is a human endeavor.