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  1. Playing with Fire (2018)

    Subject
    Physics; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    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...

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  2. Alpha 2: The Next Big Anti-Matter Machine (2012)

    Director
    Liz Mermin
    Producer
    Roger Graef
    Subject
    Physics

    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...

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  3. Stephen Hawking’s Universe (2010)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes (DVD) 240 minutes (Blu-ray)), £24.99

    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...

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  4. Horizon: Is Everything we Know About the Universe Wrong? (2010)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    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...

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  5. Most of Our Universe is Missing (2007)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    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...

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  6. A Passion for Precision: Colloquium Given by Theodor Hänsch (2006)

    Subject
    Physics

    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...

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  7. Shapes of the Invisible (2005)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 72 minutes), £16.99

    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,...

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  8. Antimatter (2003)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Free streamed access on Vega website Online, 35 min.

    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...

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  9. Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics (2000)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 70 minutes), $35.00

    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...

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  10. States of Matter (1996 Video)

    Director
    Peter Howell
    Producer
    Harold Kroto
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £12.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    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...

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