Copyright Information: Copyright - Annenberg Media. Produced by the California Institute of Technology and Intelecom. 1985.
Lecture Description
A last lingering look back at mechanics to see new connections between old discoveries.
Course Index
- Introduction
- The Law of Falling Bodies
- Derivatives
- Inertia
- Vectors
- Newton's Laws
- Integration
- The Apple and the Moon
- Moving in Circles
- Fundamental Forces
- Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism
- The Millikan Experiment
- Conservation of Energy
- Potential Energy
- Conservation of Momentum
- Harmonic Motion
- Resonance
- Waves
- Angular Momentum
- Torques and Gyroscopes
- Kepler's Three Laws
- The Kepler Problem
- Energy and Eccentricity
- Navigating in Space
- Kepler to Einstein
- Harmony of the Spheres
- Beyond the Mechanical Universe
- Static Electricity
- The Electric Field
- Potential and Capacitance
- Voltage, Energy and Force
- The Electric Battery
- Electric Circuits
- Magnetism
- The Magnetic Field
- Vector Fields and Hydrodynamics
- Electromagnetic Induction
- Alternating Current
- Maxwell's Equations
- Optics
- The Michelson-Morley Experiment
- The Lorentz Transformation
- Velocity and Time
- Mass, Momentum, Energy
- Temperature and Gas Laws
- Engine of Nature
- Entropy
- Low Temperatures
- The Atom
- Particles and Waves
- From Atoms to Quarks
- The Quantum Mechanical Universe
- Siggraph 1984 - Mechanical Universe Demo
- Siggraph 1985 - Mechanical Universe Demo
- Siggraph 1986 - Mechanical Universe Demo
- Siggraph 1987 - Mechanical Universe Demo
Course Description
“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.
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