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  1. Using Mathematical Thinking Vcr1 (1990 Video)

    Producer
    John Jaworski; Pip Surgey; Bob Walters
    Subject
    Education; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 180 min.

    This video is explicity referenced from the course text and the extracts contained form a part of the mainstream study of the text units of the course. Contains sequences filmed in primary and secondary...

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  2. Using Mathematical Thinking Vcr2 (1990 Video)

    Producer
    John Jaworski; Pip Surgey; Bob Walters
    Subject
    Education; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 89 min.

    Material intended as a course reader on video, to be used as a course enhancement. Begins with a presentation on the use of video material in mathematics education. Contains sequences mostly filmed in...

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  3. Body in White, The: Developing a Database (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Rover Group has to keep tight financial control of all the various stages in both the development of the final design and the subsequent full production of any model. Until 1989, the computer system only...

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  4. Tops, Gyroscopes and Angular Momentum (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey; Glan Thomas
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines the equation ‘rate of change of angular momentum equals torque’. The most common application of a spinning body is in a gyroscope. Gyroscopes are demonstrated, freely spinning, weighted, and...

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  5. Blancmanges and Snowflakes (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Constructs a funciton on the real line that is everywhere continuous, by nowhere differentiable, and other extraordinary functions, which are contructed and their connection with natural phenomena shown, as...

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  6. Coping with Irrationality (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Understanding what is meant by an integer or fraction is easy enough, but how can we handle number like the square root of 2, or pi, or e, and how can we do arithmetic such on numbers or work out the answer...

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  7. Shapes of Flows, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics; Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Victoria Falls and the whilrlpool at La Rance barrage in France are spectacular examples of flows. It turns out that for linear flows there are exactly 13 geometric varieties of flows that can occur, and...

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  8. And So on (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1994 sale: £60.00 (+VAT +p&p) combined with three other programmes from the course on a single cassette.

    Shows how mathematical induction is used to prove results involving natural numbers. Considers problems such as: if you joined up n points taken at random from around the edge of a circle, how many areas...

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  9. Series and e (1986 Video)

    aka: Changing Signs

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Takes the idea of a sequence of positive terms and develops it into the concepts of convergent and divergent terms.

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  10. Pi and e (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Pip Surgey
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    One way to find the value of pi or e is by defining such numbers as the limits of monotonic sequences. The number p is the area of a disc with unit radius, but the area can be found without using p by...

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