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  1. Imagined Worlds. Part 3: Behind Reality (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Professor Abdus Salam, a 1979 Nobel Laureate, has worked for 20 years towards the ‘grand unification’, the dream of physicists since Einstein that all of nature - the matter it comprises and the forces...

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  2. Imagined Worlds. Part 4: There’s No Virtue in Timidity (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Professor Tom Gold, FRS, the Austrian physicist was only 28 years old when he challenged the fundamental scientific assumption that matter can neither be created out of nothing nor totally destroyed. He,...

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  3. Imagined Worlds. Part 8: Professor Roger Penrose (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Roger Penrose, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, has developed a new geometry for physics which attempts to go beyond Einstein’s theories in our understanding of space. He discusses the...

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  4. Imagined Worlds. Part 10: Professor Sir Fred Hoyle (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Professor Sir Fred Hoyle describes the insights that led him to challenge the ‘big bang’ theory of the origin of the universe and to attempt to establish his alternative steady state theory of an...

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  5. Newton’s Third Law (1981 Video)

    Director
    Ted Smith
    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines two important consequences of Newton’s Third Law stating that action and reaction are equal and opposite. First, for a closed system, the centre of mass of the system moves uniformly or stays at...

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  6. Newton’s Equal Areas (1973 Film)

    Producer
    Bruce Cornwell; Katherine Cornwell
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Using carefully chosen examples, demonstrate how Newton’s laws of motion work. Shows that the law of areas for central force motion is a consequence of the first two laws of motion. Several examples are...

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  7. Newton: The Mind That Found the Future (1971 Film)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses the life of Newton and his contribution to modern science based on the notion of Edmund Halley, Newton’s colleague, transported into the 20th century.

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