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Atomic Physics

Date released

1971

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

89

NoS ID

351227

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: Atomic physics is difficult to teach, if only because the existence of particles as small as the electron is difficult for children to visualise. A special range of equipment for simple, clear...

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Critical Mass: America’s Race to Build the Atomic Bomb (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

CD-ROM

An exploration of the building and testing of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project. Includes dramatisations, a 3-D virtual environment,...

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Atomic Physics

Date released

1971

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

89

NoS ID

351229

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: Atomic physics is difficult to teach, if only because the existence of particles as small as the electron is difficult for children to visualise. A special range of equipment for simple, clear...

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Physics Beyond Experience (1983 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

AVAILABLE ONLY AS PART OF S271/VC3, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Introduces atomic theory and shows ways in which quantum mechanics can deal with phenomena beyond our everyday experience.

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Calder Hall Story

Date released

1956

Series name

Transatlantic Teleview

Issue no

25

NoS ID

329689

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: A report on the construction, inauguration and working of Calder Hall, the world’s first full-scale nuclear power station, and on the development of Britain’s atomic power programme....

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Race for the Top (1989 Video)

Director

Karl Sabbagh

Producer

Karl Sabbagh

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Features two competing teams of scientists as they search for the ‘top quark’ atomic particle, one of the fundamental consitutents of matter. Based at CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) in...

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Max Planck: The World of Atoms (1983 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

A biographical account, set in a framework of period and historic film clips, of Planck’s main scientific work; the temperature dependence of wavelength distribution in radiation, the discovery of the...

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Not So Elementary, The Proton (1992 Video)

aka: Pas Si ÉlÉmentaire le Proton

Producer

Eyal Cohen

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 6 min.

A simulation of the formation of a proton by the use of computer-generated graphics. Models the interaction of valence quarks and their associated quantum clouds containing virtual quarks, anti-quarks and...

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Modern Physics and Cosmology: An Introduction to Quantum Physics, Relativity and the Origins of the Universe (2004)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 20 minutes), £29.00

Explains how quantum theory and relativity have transformed our understanding of the sub-atomic world, light, gravity and the origins of the universe. The video is divided into sections dealing with the...

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Secret of the Universe, The (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

CD-ROM

Illustrate fundamentals of physics using interactive computer models and computer animations. Covers: the music of the spheres; conservation of energy; Newtonan gravity; electromagnetism; atomic theory;...

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