Principles of Physics, Part 1
- Synopsis
- The programmme presents key concepts of mechanics and light, employing high quality graphics and animations, live footage and worked examples of relevant formulas.
Conveniently structured in short clip format, the mechanics section covers scalars and vectors, equations of motions, projectile and circular motions, Newton’s laws of motion including a dynamic illustration of the third law in action, kinetic and potential energies both gravitational and elastic, energy conservation, collisions, and conservation of momentum. The light section covers light as a wave, wave equation, combining light of different colours, reflection in plane and curved mirrors including ray diagrams, refraction, convex and concave lenses including ray diagrams, polarisation, diffraction, interference, photoelectric effect, wave-particle duality.
Intended for use in secondary schools. - Language
- English
- Country
- Australia
- Year of production
- 2012
- Subjects
- Physics
- Keywords
- energy; gravity; light; wave mechanics
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £39.00
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 24 minutes
- Year
- 2016
Production Company
- Name
VEA
- vea@vea.com.au
- Web
- http://www.vea.com.au/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- 316 - 328 Napier Street
Fitzroy
3550 Victoria
Australia - Notes
- The company ceased trading June 2015.
Distributor
- Name
Boulton-Hawker Films Ltd
- Web
- http://www.boultonhawker.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01449 616200
- Fax
- 01449 677600
- Address
- Combs Tannery
Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP14 2EN
United Kingdom
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