The Mechanical universe-- and beyond
Subtitle: Part I : The mechanical universe, programs 13-16
By: California Institute of Technology and the Southern California Consortium ; producer and director, Peter Buffa
Contributors: California Institute of Technology; Southern California Consortium for Community College Television; Annenberg/CPB
Series: SCI 100a (NU course)
Publisher: Annenberg/CPB
Published: 2003
Place of publication: S. Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Conservation laws (Physics); Force and energy; Cosmology; Collisions (Physics); Perpetual motion; Harmonic motion
Other titles: Mechanical universe (Television program); Conservation of energy.; Potential energy.; Conservation of momentum.; Harmonic motion.
Description: Program 13 deals with the law of physics which states that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Program 14 deals with potential energy and the powerful model that this concept has become for understanding why the world has worked the same way since the beginning of time. Program 15 likens the universe to a perpetual clock and applies the principle of conservation of momentum to explain why the universe continues to operate. The same principle is also applied to an analysis of collisions. Program 16 explains that the restoring force and inertia of any stable mechanical system causes objects to execute simple harmonic motion. Uses computer animation sequences, historical reenactments, and close-up photography of experiments.
Notes: An Annenberg/CPB project.

Pt. of a two-semester television course.

Videodisc release of the original television program: The mechanical universe.

Animated graphics, Jim Blinn ; story editor, Jack Arnold ; consultants, Dave A. Campbell, Judith Goodstein.

Host, David Goodstein.

College students and adults.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Conservation of energy (30 min.); title: Potential energy (30 min.); title: Conservation of momentum (30 min.); title: Harmonic motion (30 min.