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Physics



EINSTEIN'S EXTRAORDINARY UNIVERSE

One hundred years ago, Einstein's theory of General Relativity was announced to the world. Black holes, time travel, and the Big Bang beginning of our universe are all consequences of Einstein's great theory.

To celebrate, we visit three 'big physics' facilities: CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland; the vast dark matter laboratories under a mountain in Italy; and two three-kilometre rooms where scientists are hoping to prove a prediction Einstein made over a century ago - that gravitational waves exist.


DVD / 2016 / () / 28 minutes

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AFTERSHOCK - THE HUNT FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

The search for a theory of everything

In early 2014 scientists thought they had found evidence of gravitational waves from the Big Bang. These waves could help physicists on the search for a Theory of Everything - a grand explanation of all physics.

However, doubts set in almost immediately with rival groups reanalysing the data. Horizon embarks on a journey through this wild frontier of physics - a story of rejection, perseverance and professional courage where, for some, glory beckons while, for others, their life's work hangs in the balance.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.


DVD / 2015 / () / 50 minutes

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DANCING IN THE DARK: THE END OF PHYSICS?

Horizon meets the scientists on the hunt for everything that's missing from our understanding of the universe and asks what success or failure will mean for the future of physics.

A quarter of the stuff in our universe is unaccounted for. We see its effects written across the heavens, but it has never been seen and cannot be explained. This mysterious substance is known as dark matter.

Scientists hope that, by discovering the identity of dark matter, they will discover an essential piece in the cosmic jigsaw, as well as answering some problems with the standard model of particle physics.

From CERN in Switzerland to a telescope in Chile, Horizon meets the scientists trying to solve one of the biggest mysteries in the universe and asks what success or failure will mean for the future of physics.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.


DVD / 2015 / () / 50 minutes

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FORCES AND MOTION: THE PHYSICS OF CAR CRASHES

Bring Newton's three laws of motion to life with this DVD that uses extraordinary slow motion HD footage filmed during car crash testing to explore how energy is distributed during the fractions of a second when cars crash. The DVD explores ideas of inertia, resultant forces, energy and momentum, but applies it in the real world context of designing air bags, crumple zones and seats to protect the passenger.

DVD / 2015 / (KS 3-5) / 26 minutes

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SHOW ME SCIENCE ADVANCED - CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS: PHYSICS - FUSION ENERGY DISCOVERIES

The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a collaborative national center for fusion energy research. The Laboratory advances the coupled fields of fusion energy and plasma physics research, and is developing the scientific understanding and key innovations needed to realize fusion as an energy source. This program details how PPPL has gained extensive capabilities in a host of disciplines including advanced computational simulations, vacuum technology, mechanics, materials science, electronics, and more.

DVD / 2015 / (High School or above) / 9 minutes

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SHOW ME SCIENCE ADVANCED - PHYSICS: THE SCIENCE OF ATHLETICS

Kinesiology is the study and application of physics to body movement - energy, work, friction and inertia. This program explores the application of Newton's Three Laws of Motion in baseball regarding pitching and hitting. Kinesiologists at the American Sports Medicine Institute use video motion capture to study the biomechanics of a pitcher's delivery to optimize performance and help reduce injury.

DVD / 2012 / (High School or above) / 16 minutes

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PHYSICS IN ACTION: ENERGY

Talking about energy is tricky because everyday words can also have specialized scientific meanings. Through the process of defining key terms like "power," "work," and even "energy" itself, this program uses a roller coaster, a harmless train wreck, ice -skaters, a boulder, a human cannonball, night -vision goggles, and a supernova to introduce students to kinetic and potential energy, electrical energy, chemical energy, nuclear energy, and conduction, convection, and radiation of heat.

DVD / 2010 / () / 25 minutes

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PHYSICS IN ACTION: FORCES AND MOTION

In New York City, there are many ways to travel. Of course, it's a lot easier if you're a bird. Using the Big Apple as a living laboratory, this program addresses speed and distance using a pigeon, a taxi, and a tour boat. Additional situations such as the deployment of a Mars rover, a zero -G flight in NASA's Weightless Wonder, a walk on a conveyor belt and a cruising aircraft carrier, and juggling on the Earth and around the Solar System provide opportunities to study the mechanics of velocity and acceleration as well as contact forces and forces that act at a distance. Vector algebra is demonstrated throughout.

DVD / 2010 / () / 25 minutes

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PHYSICS IN ACTION: PLANETS, STARS, AND GALAXIES

Beginning with the history of astronomy (Ptolemy, Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Galileo), this program considers the mathematics of motion (velocity, acceleration); gravity (Kepler's discoveries, Newton's laws, center of gravity, astronomical units); the properties of stars (parallax, flux, luminosity, color, Hertzsprung -Russell diagram); relativity (Einstein's theories, speed of light, space -time); and the large -scale structure of the universe (Big Bang, Cosmological Principle, Hubble's law). Humankind has come a long way in our understanding of the cosmos - but we're still only scratching the surface of astrophysics, with discoveries of incalculable value still waiting to be made.

DVD / 2010 / () / 25 minutes

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PHYSICS IN ACTION: PROCESSES THAT SHAPE THE EARTH

The Earth is like a living, breathing organism. From its molten core to the upper reaches of the atmosphere, nothing is still. How was the planet formed, and what are the forces that continue to sculpt it? This program uses animated topographical maps, a broken pane of glass, a fortune in diamonds, a floor -sanding machine, stalactites, flowing glaciers, a merry -go -round, a greenhouse, and more to help students visualize the structure and composition of the Earth and the processes that shape our world. Dangerous impacts of humankind - most notably pollution and deforestation - are also considered.

DVD / 2010 / () / 25 minutes

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PHYSICS IN ACTION: THE NATURE OF MATTER

An elephant and a racing car don't have much in common - except for the remarkable fact that they're made of similar fundamental building blocks. This program takes a simulated subatomic look at a glass of water to better understand the nature of matter, a minuscule world of molecules, atoms, and elementary particles. The behavior of matter under the effects of gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces; the process of scientific experimentation; specifics of atomic structure; the organization of matter via the periodic table; ionic, covalent, and hydrogen bonding; the process of radioactive decay; and the death of fusion -fueled stars are scrutinized as well.

DVD / 2010 / () / 25 minutes

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ADVANCED PHYSICS: ASTROPHYSICS - A TOUR OF THE UNIVERSE

Astrophysicist Rachel Webster - a Professor at Melbourne University - reviews key aspects of our current knowledge of the Universe and other topics and concepts that excite students.

DVD / 2009 / (Grades 12 or above) / 55 minutes

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ADVANCED PHYSICS: EINSTEINS HEROES-NEWTON, FARADAY AND MAXWELL

Dr Robyn Arianrhod, a writer and mathematician at Monash University takes us on a remarkable journey as she traces the connections between the development of electrodynamics by Faraday and Maxwell, and Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity. Along the way, she looks at the roles both mathematics and experimentation have played in establishing these key areas of modern physics.

DVD / 2009 / (Grades 12 or above) / 63 minutes

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ADVANCED PHYSICS: LIGHT PHASE AND MATTER

Dr Catherine Low discusses difficulties students have with models and concepts of light and matter. Catherine recently completed her PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics and is currently teaching senior physics in New Zealand. Catherine Bell discusses the importance of phase in understanding the behavior of waves.She is completing a PhD on Phase Microscopy and is currently teaching senior Physics.

DVD / 2007 / (Grades 12 or above) / 54 minutes

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ADVANCED PHYSICS: PHOTONICS

Presenter: Dr Alex Mazzolini, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences at Swinburne University covers the following topics: Photonics in everyday life; Light sources; Fibre optics; Ideas for practical demonstrations.

DVD / 2007 / (Grades 12 or above) / 51 minutes

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ADVANCED PHYSICS: SOUND AND OTHER DEMONSTRATIONS

Sandor Kazi presents a range of demonstrations related to waves, including: wave machines, standing waves, Chladni figures, ripple tanks and resonance. Sandor teaches senior Physics. Nick Nicola is the Undergraduate Laboratory Manager, School of Physics, University of Melbourne. His demonstrations focus on upper secondary physics.

DVD / 2007 / (Grades 12 or above) / 42 minutes

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ADVANCED PHYSICS: SPECIAL RELATIVITY

Presenter: Joe Wolfe, Professor of Physics, University of New South Wales covers the topic Approaches to teaching Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.

DVD / 2007 / (Grades 12 or above) / 45 minutes

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ADVANCED PHYSICS: SYNCHRONTRON

Presenter Mark Boland, an Accelerator Physicist at the Australian Synchrotron, explains the physics and operation of a synchrotron, then covers their uses in medicine, mining, forensics, manufacturing and other fields.

DVD / 2007 / (Grades 12 or above) / 58 minutes

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MOMENTUM AND IMPULSE

This program defines and explains the concepts of momentum and impulse, while working out problems, step by step, that demonstrates the units of measure of these quantities, sign conventions when dealing with momentum, and more. Each teachers guide includes subject matter revision and suggestions on how to present material, questions to ask students and class projects to help illustrate the key concepts. Resource Chapter - Includes Recommended Books & Physics Websites.

DVD / 2007 / () / 33 minutes

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ULTIMATE IMPACT: THE PHYSICS OF MOTION

Roller Coasters - Boasting speeds of over 120mph, devastating drops, and terrifying turns, roller coasters are the world's most thrilling amusement attraction. But what keeps these machines in motion? The Physics of Motion will reveal the wonderful world of physics and the principles of friction, potential energy, gravity, and acceleration.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 9 or above) / 45 minutes

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MODERN PHYSICS: AN INTRODUCTION

The proud history of physics from Galileo to Einstein is surveyed in Part 1 of this 2-part program. Students will learn how physicists like Galileo and Isaac Newton radically changed our view of the universe in the Renaissance. And how physicists like Einstein, Curie and Bohr changed it again the the 20th century.

In Part 2 students will meet some outstanding physicists working today. Included are interviews with Donald Huffman, the physicist who by serendipity discovered how to make buckyballs; Sally Ride, the physicist who was America's first woman astronaut; Don Eigler, the IBM physicist who was the first to move atoms one at a time; and more.


DVD / 2003 / (Secondary, College) / 54 minutes

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IMPOSSIBLE: PHYSICS BEYOND THE EDGE

By Benjamin Schumacher

Physicists spend a lot of time thinking about impossible things, since probing the constantly shifting bounds between the possible and impossible is one of the best ways to discover unexpected phenomena and new laws of nature. And for nonscientists, exploring this extraordinary realm is one of the best introductions to the immensely rich subject of physics.

Consider these questions:
  • Can machines produce limitless energy?
  • Is time travel possible?
  • Can anything travel faster than light?
  • Is it possible to escape from a black hole?


  • Each is a puzzle that requires pieces from different parts of physics to solve. And after investigating these and other questions, you begin to see how all of physics is tied together in a system that is consistent, logical, beautiful, and often very surprising.

    For example, the question about whether time travel is possible leads you to a study of the nature of time and space. The paradoxes you encounter there are directly related to Einstein's concepts of space-time and the constancy of the speed of light from his theory of relativity. This, in turn, takes you to exotic ideas such as black holes and wormholes, which some theorists believe may be potential shortcuts through space-time.

    Before you know it, a staple subject of science fiction-time travel-has taken you through many layers of investigation to reveal profound truths about the universe.

    Impossible: Physics beyond the Edge uses this ingenious approach in 24 delightful half-hour lectures that will entertain and nourish your mind, while teaching you more physics than you ever imagined. Your guide into the realms of the impossible is veteran Great Courses Professor Benjamin Schumacher of Kenyon College, a pioneering theorist in quantum information, which is a field dealing with things once deemed impossible.


    4 DVDs (With Course Guidebook) / / () / 720 minutes

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