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Superfluid Helium (3rd Edition) (1976 Film)

Director

J F Allen

Producer

J F Allen

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This revised version of SUPERFLUID HELIUM (1972) shows several of the dramatic phenomena of the superfluid - the lamda transition between normal and superfluid helium, the fountain, the superleak, and the...

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Superflow (1986 Video)

Producer

James Burge

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

It has been known since the early part of this century that substances like liquid helium, which can be cooled to very low temperatures (lower than 5 degrees Kelvin), exhibit bizarre behaviour. They appear...

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Superfluid Helium (5th Edition) (1982 Video)

Director

J F Allen

Producer

J F Allen

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min.

A collection of experiments carried out on film, each experiment preceded by explanatory graphs and a sound commentary. Shows various superfluid properties: cooling through to lambda-transition to show...

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Chemistry of Interstellar Space, The (1995 Video)

aka: Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium As Revealed by Spectroscopy, The

Subject

Chemistry; Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A Royal Institution Discourse by Wiliam Klemperer looks at the hordes of molecules in the interstellar medium, seen during radioastronomical observations of our galaxy. The mass of molecules rising between...

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Light on Lasers (1983 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Discusses the theory of lasers and their construction beginning with examples of the wide range of their applications. A He-Ne laser is used to explain how the high energy helium atoms in collision with neon...

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Counting Atoms (1982 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Shows how the behaviour of liquid heium can be explained by the way atoms are counted in various energy levels available to them. Illustrates the way energy can be distributed among atoms by using snookers...

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Gravity and the Stars (1985 Video)

Producer

Tony Duggan

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

The birth and death of stars. Discusses dust in interstellar space and the formation of stars. Gravity is shown to play a major part in the necessary increase of density and temperature, leading to the...

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Divers Do It Deeper (1978 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 54 min., 2001 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The need to work hundreds of feet below the surface in the North Sea oilfields has challenged scientists and entgneers to get men down to ever greater depths. This programme includes film of a technique...

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Phonons (1986 Video)

Producer

Ted Smith

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

The origins of modern quantum mechanics date back to 1900 and Max Planck’s hypothesis that oscillators, which classically would be allowed to have any energy, are allowed to have only discrete energies....

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Big Bang, The (2003)

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £35.00

An introduction to the Big Bang theory, explaining: how Hubble laid the foundation of the Big Bang theory when he discovered that distant galaxies were receding from the earth, indicated by the ‘red...

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