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This Learning Object consists of a three vodcasts by Jim Bennett, Director of the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, on the Newtonian telescope - why Newton designed it, and how it fits into the story...
This is an introductory college-level course in physics delivered by Professor Richard Wolfson. The DVD consists of 60 half-hour lectures and is broken into six subject areas: ‘Newtonian Mechanics’,...
A series of five programmes demonstrating applications of electronics in environmental control, industry, healthcare, transport and communications
Explores the concepts and technology behind fibre-optic communication in one case study, and the communication systems being eeveloped by Jaguar in another. Aims to get students thinking about the...
A video recording of a short course held by the Electron Devices Meeting in 2000. The course provides an overview of key optoelectronic devices for optical communication systems, specifically semiconductor...
Explores routes around perceived bandwidth limitations in networked environments, with strategies for extending the capacity of the existing copper resources and launching community-based fibre initiatives....
Shows in detail how a lens forms an image. Covers: refraction (a property of waves); how an image is formed; spectrum from a prism; chromatic aberrations in lenses; rainbows; TIR; optical fibres, water jets,...
A tutorial looking at some 25 common physics problems in areas including mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, optics and modern physics. The problems are taken from Crummett and Western’s...
An Open University programme using optics and geometry to investigate the rainbow. Over the years the rainbow has fascinated theologians and philosophers alike. Both groups have suggested many reasons for...
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