BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
Our ability to harness heat has led to some of humanity’s greatest achievements, from the molten metals that enabled us to make tools, to the great engines of the Industrial Revolution powered by steam, to...
One in a series of sixteen vignettes showing daily life inside the CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. The films depict everyday life inside the laboratory, featuring interviews with...
Series of six programmes in which Professor Stephen Hawking considers topics in cosmology. 1: Explores mathematics and how it revolutionised our view of the universe. Covers Ptolemy’s theory of the motion...
Cosmology fights a constant battle to describe, analyse and simply comprehend our universe - a thing of unimaginable size and astonishing complexity, governed by forces impossible to recreate on Earth. The...
We can only account for a tiny percentage of our universe - around 4% - so what is the remaining 96% made of? The current favoured thinking relies on the existence of dark matter: a substance you can’t...
Colloquium given by Theodor Hänsch, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy. At the time of the interview Hänsch was also...
A series of 22 short scientific films, each up to 3 minutes in length, providing the chance to zoom into the atomic structure of 22 objects of daily life (steel, brass, concrete, aluminium, ceramic, hair,...
The panel, chaired by Colin Blakemore and consisting of Dr Fay Dowker and Professor Graham Thompson (Queen Mary, University of London), and Professor Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge) discuss the nature of...
This is a recording of Richard Feynman giving the first of the Paul Dirac Memorial Lectures at St John’s College Cambridge in 1986. Paul Dirac, one of the most important physicists of the twentieth...
John Murrell of the University of Sussex discusses the basic physical principles relating to the gaseous, liquid and solid states, using models and demonstrations. He notes phase changes and subtle features...
You are currently searching in Find DVD. Search all the BUFVC's collections for '"matter"' in All fields.