Lecture Demonstrations Laboratory

The Demonstrations Manual

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Audio Cassetts with Slides
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VHS Movies: A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers: Chen Ning Yang; The Mechanical Universe; Molecular Theory of Matter; Optics; Photons; Physics Demonstrations in Mechanics; Physics Spaceflight Series; The Origin of Galaxies; The Origin of Quasars; The Origin of the Universe; The Rutherford Atom; A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers: Steven Weinberg; Smithsonian World: The Quantum Universe; Spectra; The Wave - Mechanical Model; The World of Chemistry; Einstein Revealed; What Einstein Never New; Conservation Laws in Zero 'G'; Progressive Waves; How a Car is Built; Measurement of the Speed of Light; A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers: Quarks and the Universe with Murray Gell-Mann; Laser Light; The Astronomers; Birth of the Stars; The Bohr Model; The Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations; Frames of Reference; The Grand Design

Smithsonian World: The Quantum Universe

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How can astonishingly precise predictions emerge from a theory whose interpretation remains mysterious and controversial? This is the dilemma of modern physics. This unique program explores the world of quantum physics as seen through the eyes of scientists and artists. Viewers visit the high-energy particle physics facility at the Havard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for a look at the latest tools in physics; they enjoy a brief excerpt from Tom Stoppard's play "Hapgood," a performance that draws some of its form and content from the discoveries of modern physics, and they learn about the horizons of modern quantum theory through interviews with Nobel Laureates, Sheldon Glashow, and Burton Richter.