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  1. Einstein’s Belief (1982 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    Explains Einstein’s theory of relativity using animation to illustrate the basic concepts. Discusses the philosophical framework behind Einstein’s ideas - the theory that physical reality is independent...

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  2. Recent additions to the Moving Image Gateway

    Date
    11 Apr 2014, 15:00
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,500 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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  3. Albert Einstein: The Route to Nuclear Physics (1983 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 16 min.

    A mainly photographic record of the life of Albert Einstein is followed by a survey of the advances made in nuclear physics since his time. Stresses the importance of funding to keep pace with modern...

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  4. At the Frontier (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines Einstein’s theoretical prediction that light from a star could be bent when passing close to the sun, and recounts the quantitative confirmation of this prediction during the 1919 eclipse of the...

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  5. Pushed to the Limit (1980 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Crilly; Ian Rosenbloom
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    Newton’s synthesis of terrestrial and celestial mechanics was so successful that it seemed that all of physics - and perhaps all of life - was deterministic. Newton’scheme allows for infinite speeds. In...

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  6. Wave-Particle Paradox, The (1980 Video)

    Director
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Demonstrates two famous paradoxes in physics: is light waves or particles and are electrons waves or particles? The discussion is set against the debate on whether truth is objective or subjective in the...

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  7. Imagined Worlds. Part 3: Behind Reality (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Professor Abdus Salam, a 1979 Nobel Laureate, has worked for 20 years towards the ‘grand unification’, the dream of physicists since Einstein that all of nature - the matter it comprises and the forces...

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  8. Theory of Relativity, The: An Introduction (1981 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Surveys some of the important concepts in relativity by providing an introduction to the topics of relative velocity, addition of velocities, the constancy of the velocity of light, time dilation, muon...

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  9. E=mc2 (1980 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Millington
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The interchangeability of mass and energy is expressed in Einstein’s equation E=MC2. Traces how this relation follows on from the new ideas of space and time once matter is introduced.

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  10. Action of Drugs on the Cardiovascular System (1974 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 40 min.

    A considerably edited programme showing the preparation of an anaesthetised dog for measurement of arterial blood pressure, heart rate, aortic blood flow, left ventricular contractility. Responses to...

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