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Experiment with an Air-Pump, An (1998 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 120 min.

Video recording using two cameras of a performance of ‘An Experiment with an Air-Pump’ by Shelagh Stephenson, directed by Matthew Lloyd, and performed at the Hampstead Theatre, London in November 1998.

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Conformity and Independence (1975)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £130.00

Looks at findings and principles in social psychology in the areas of conformity and independence. Using field and laboratory settings to reinforce the interplay of experience and experiment, covers...

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Cearex Oceanography Camp (1990 Video)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Video cassette. Standard formats. col. 42 min.

Describes the scientific activities which took place at the ice-camp above the Arctic Ocean in Spring 1989. The primary interest of the 25 scientists present was to study the oceanographic processes that...

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Seismic Methods (1992 Video)

Producer

David Jackson

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

Measuring the distances between layers by seismic refraction: a simple kind of seismic refraction experiment is set up in the Cretaceous chalk near Didsbury. Then, staff of a geophysical exploration company,...

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Energy (1988 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In the middle of the 19th century, brewer and part-tiime scientist James Prescott Joule became fascinated by the nature of heat. He was convinced that heat was a form of energy, a sort of transfer to energy....

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Experiment: Physics (14 Parts) (1986 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col 3 x 15 min.

Designed to support A-level physics courses, each programme enables students to make observations and readings as if they were performing experiments in the laboratory. Titles of individual programmes are:...

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Rosenhan’s Experiment (2011)

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00

Can psychiatrists reliably detect insanity? Rosenhan set out to test if they could in his 1973 study. When all of his pseudo patients were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, forced to remain in...

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Young and the Wave Theory of Light (1968 Film)

Director

John Sharples

Producer

Richard Warren

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A filmed lecture given by Sir Lawrence Bragg at the Royal Institution. Outlines the two contrasting theories of light (the particle theory and the wave theory) which were held in the 18th century. Describes...

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Experiment in Towns, An (1958 Video)

aka: British New Towns

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 22 min., 2005 sale: £19.95 (+p&p +VAT)

Records the experiment in town planning in Britain in the 1950s in which 15 completely self-sufficient and scientifically planned new towns were designed to help draw people and industry from the great...

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Shakey: An Experiment in Robot Planning and Learning (197 Film)

Producer

Peter Hart; Nils Nilsson

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the progress of an experiment in getting a robot to plan how to achieve a new task in terms of its existing abilities. The plan, which in this case is to push a wooden cube in front of a doorway to...

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