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  1. Soaring Achievements (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Glider pilots often fly faster than powered aircraft and race round 500km circuits, just seconds apart. This programme examines the development of gliding from the 1930s to the present and explores some of...

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  2. Systems of Particles (1999 Video)

    Producer
    Anne-Marie Gallen
    Subject
    Mathematics; Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 11 min.

    Shows the results of many of the most basic experiments on the behaviour of bodies carried out using the air track. The air track is used by applied mathematicians to study the effects of bodies under the...

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  3. Principles and Mathematics of Ship Stability (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Jean Nunn
    Subject
    Engineering; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) higher education - master tape for re-editing and copying 2000 sale: £45.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) VHS

    Discusses the transverse and longitudinal stability of ships, using a mixture of graphics, tank model demonstrations and footage of real ship at sea and in port. Stability is governed by the internal...

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  4. Arch Never Sleeps, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Peet
    Subject
    Architecture; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £34.99

    The structures of medieval stone cathedrals and bridges relied on principles of statics. John Trapp examines the development of the design of arches in the cathedrals of Ely in England and Chartres in...

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  5. Transforming the World (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Peet
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An overview of some uses for linear transformations, rotations in particular, and how they rely on matrix manipulation. Case studies include IKEA kitchens, news graphics and RAF cockpit research.

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  6. Flexible Learning Approach to Physics (Flap), Course S570 (1995 Audio, Multimedia, Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thomas
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Video, audio and software package comprising 83 self-study modules for introductory physics and related mathematics. It is designed as a resource from which a variety of flexible-entry, self-study courses...

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  7. Mathwise (1995 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Thirty-two self-study modules, with 18 titles for Apple Macintosh platforms and 21 for PC, on mathematics for science and engineering students, each covering a separate topic. Approximately 5 hours of...

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  8. Measuring the Marigold (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 31 min., 2006 hire: £5.00

    Recording of a lecture given by Professor Peter Saunders as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. Mathematics can be applied to biology in its own right, not just as a sort of...

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  9. Logarithms and Population Growth

    Subject
    Economics; Mathematics

    A short video introduces the problem of understanding population growth over time in the UK and Mexico, and the logarithm needed to solve it is explained in an accompanying animation. NB This is just one...

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  10. Arithmetic, Population and Energy

    Subject
    Energy; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $12.00

    Video recording of a 60-minute talk by Professor Albert Bartlett based on his paper, "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis," originally published in the American Journal of Physics, and revised in the...

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