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Looks at wave physics and explains how the shape and depth of the bay plays a key role in determining the shape of a wave. Also shows how a better understanding of physics is allowing improved surf-boards to...
The programme explores the world of speed skiing, a winter sport equivalent of dragster racing. The difference is that the only motor power available is the slope of the hill.This programme examines the...
The origins of modern quantum mechanics date back to 1900 and Max Planck’s hypothesis that oscillators, which classically would be allowed to have any energy, are allowed to have only discrete energies....
Revises a range of basic mechanical principles through the close analysis of a number of specially staged circus acts. The analysis usmakes extensive use of freeze- and stop-frame techniques, plus...
A biographical account, set in a framework of period and historic film clips, of Planck’s main scientific work; the temperature dependence of wavelength distribution in radiation, the discovery of the...
Shows how the behaviour of liquid heium can be explained by the way atoms are counted in various energy levels available to them. Illustrates the way energy can be distributed among atoms by using snookers...
Looks at the theory behind gas turbine cycles using studio animations and a schematic model. A visit to the CEGB Ironbridge Power Station shows how this is used in practice. Shows the working gas and steam...
A display of the time-dependent Gaussian wave function describing a free non-relativistic particle, and of the supporting mathematical concept necessary for the development of the spreading packet.
Newton’s synthesis of terrestrial and celestial mechanics was so successful that it seemed that all of physics - and perhaps all of life - was deterministic. Newton’scheme allows for infinite speeds. In...
Phenomena associated with the rotation of homogeneous fluids. Includes horizontal trajectories in surface gravity waves, low and high Rossby number flows around spheres, Taylor walls, normal modes of inertia...
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