LibGuides: Applied Physics: Media

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The Amazing World of Gravity Series (2 Titles) From the award-winning team that brought you The Secret Life of Chaos comes a unique television event on the physics of gravity, featuring unexpected historical insights, cutting- edge science and exciting new experiments. With the brilliant Professor Jim Al-Khalili as our host, we visit the LIGO lab in the USA where gravity waves were discovered, and uncover the latest theories about our cosmos that have come from studying the most intense sources of gravity imaginable – black holes. Elsewhere, Jim even uses Albert Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity to work out how the rate at which you age is affected by gravity and the speed at which you move about.
Annenberg Learner Physics for the 21st Century Series (11 Titles) Dark matter, string theory, particle accelerators, and other big topics in modern physics come together in this 11-part multimedia course for high school physics teachers, undergraduate students, and all adults who are fascinated by physics and cosmology. This series covers a broad scale, from sub-atomic particle physics, through atomic and molecular physics, to cosmology. The 11 video programs feature 22 case studies of researchers from leading research labs and universities who are breaking new ground in their fields.
Collisions Series (4 Titles) Collisions are everywhere—some are insignificant, others can be catastrophic. This series explores how understanding important laws and principles of physics and calculating different variable quantities enables us to explain the behavior of colliding objects.
PBS Einstein's Quantum Riddle (53:16) Quantum entanglement is poised to revolutionize technology from networks to code breaking–but first we need to know it’s real. Join physicists as they capture light from the universe to prove Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance.”
Shedding Light on Electricity Series (5 titles) This series exposes the shocking truth about electricity. Yes, positively a bad pun to begin with, but we promise to conduct ourselves really well from now on. This series teaches students watts of stuff about electricity including how it’s produced, how it’s used in our homes, how it’s controlled, and how we keep ourselves safe from nasty shocks. This is high-voltage education that is hard to resist!
Shedding Light on Heat Series (6 Titles) The Heat is on! A huge amount of the technology and comforts that we have in our world just wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for what we’ve learned about the way heat behaves. So keep cool and use this excellent series to teach your students everything that they need to know about heat, including its effect on things and how it transfers from one thing to another. Series (6 Titles)
Shedding Light on Motion Series (8 Titles) This series is a visual treasure trove of demonstrations, animations, and explanations of all things motion! To an extent we are all familiar with motion because we all move and we see movement everywhere, but a detailed knowledge of motion has allowed us to build the wonderful modern world that we live in.

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