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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’,...
In 1964 Peter Higgs had a big idea about the mystery of how matter in the universe got its mass. This question has such an important place in physics that well over one billion pounds is being spent in the...
What is carbon 14? What is a radiocarbon date? Is it the same as a calendar date? What does radiocarbon dating measure and why does it take a long time? How does an accelerator mass spectrometer measure...
A video recording of CNRS scientist Professor Alain Aspect delivering the 2010 Schrödinger Lecture on quibits at Imperial College.. In 1935, with co-authors Podolsky and Rosen, Einstein discovered an...
Video recording of a lecture in which Steven Gubser gives a concise introduction to the main ideas in string theory and a quick tour of the basic laws of physics as we understand them today. Based on his...
An ongoing project on superconductivity produced to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of superconductivity in 2011. It consists of a series of video lectures by leading world experts in academia and...
Video recording of a lecture on the physics of the impossible given by Michio Kaku at the RSA on 28 May 2009, based on his book of the same title. In it he explores the possibility of phenomena such as death...
Wilson Greatbatch, who originally graduated from Cornell and Buffalo universities, is known for advancing the development of early implantable cardiac pacemakers. In this interview he discusses his work.
It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive depends on whether Stephen Hawking’s theory checks out. (21 minutes)
A sympathetic portrayal of the genius of four brilliant mathematicians and their attempts to unravel the mysteries of the universe with tragic repercussions for their sanity. This programme addresses some of...
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