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  1. Six Billion Dollar Experiment (2007)

    Producer
    James van der Pool
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    This film looks at the work of the CERN institute in Geneva, where scientists are engaged in experimental research that aims to recreate the conditions present at the first moments of the universe by forcing...

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  2. Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1998 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows two experiments: using static drops to balance mg against nqe; plotting voltages on drops; size of drop ascertained from falling drops; reasons for experimental error; Millikan’s questionable...

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  3. Quantum Leaps into the Atom (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Atoms are like bubbles in space, the electrons surrounding a tiny central ncleus. Shows how experimental evidence from the atomic and nuclear spectrum and the energy scales found inside the atom can be...

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  4. Pioneers in Art and Science: Art, Poetry and Particle Physics (2005)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Literature; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £14.99

    John Berger travels to the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory at CERN in Geneva to confront physicists with poetry. The film charts an extraordinary and wide-ranging series of discussions and...

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  5. Towards One Force of Nature (1983 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1995 sale: £95.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how Italian physicist Carlo Rubbia (who shared the Nobel Prize ofr Physics in 1984) and his team designed and constructed a 2000-tonne detector to record the ‘W’ particle as it speeds through the...

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  6. Maglev (1979 Film)

    Director
    Bill Mason
    Producer
    Lionel Cole
    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes an experimental vehicle using magnetic levitation for suspension.

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  7. Graphs (4 Parts) (1975 Video)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 21, 17, 16, 26 min.

    A series designed to help students convert their experimental data into graphical form.

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  8. Work and Energy (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Millington
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Energy can be stored in a flywheel or a spring and used for a variety of practical purposes. Shows a flywheel used in an experimental train to store and release energy, and of dampers and springs in action....

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  9. Elementary Radioactivity (1995)

    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Free, Electronic file via anonymous ftp (ftp.liv.ac.uk).

    CAL courseware designed to teach the basics of radioactivity: 1) types of radioactive decay, 2) binding energy and decay, 3) parallel and sequential decay, 4) units of rradioactive decay, 5) half-life and...

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  10. Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts (2016)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 264 minutes), £29.99

    Avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson. The plot revolves, loosely, around Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb. Originally premiered in 1976, this...

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