Just how big is space?
By: a production of Cambridge Educational ; producer-director, Christine Dean
Contributors: Cambridge Educational (Firm)
Series: Cambridge core science series
Publisher: Cambridge Educational
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lawrenceville, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: General relativity (Physics); Special relativity (Physics)
Description: "Reveals the immensity of space by showing how its distances are measured and by examining the effects of Einstein's Theory of Relativity on space travel. Topics include parallax calculations, the inverse square law of light brightness, the Cepheid variable, Doppler shift, time dilation, space dilation, and the distorting effect of gravity on the space time continuum."--Container.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Teacher's guide available online, www.meridianeducation.com, search on 34743.

Correlates to National Science Education Standards, National Educational Technology Standards, and standards of the Association for the Advancement of Science.

Narrator: Paul Ryan.

DVD-R.
Table of contents: title: How big is space?; title: Relativity theory.