Alternating Current
Alternating Current explores alternating current and how the rationale was developed to use it for electric power transmission. Program includes the history of the transformer and the contributions of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.
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Angular Momentum
Angular Momentum develops the ideas of angular momentum and torque through applications to planetary motion, whirlpools, tornadoes, and spinning ice skaters.
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Conservation of Energy
Conservation of Energy explains how kinetic energy, heat energy, and the concept of work weave together in the law of conservation of energy.
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Conservation of Momentum
Conservation of Momentum illustrates how Newtons laws of motion lead to the fundamental law of conservation of momentum.
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Curved Space and Black Holes
Curved Space and Black Holes analyzes Einsteins principle of equivalence and its consequences - curved space and black holes.
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Electric Fields and Forces
Electric Fields and Forces describes electric force and Faradays concept of electric fields.
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Electromagnetic Induction
Electromagnetic Induction addresses Faradays law related to induced electric fields and changing magnetic flux.
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Equipotentials and Fields
Equipotentials and Fields uses contour lines to illustrate the relationships between electric potentials and electric fields.
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Harmonic Motion
Harmonic Motion provides a model to illustrate the scientific process of extracting simple, underlying physical principles from complex behavior.
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Introduction to Waves
Introduction to Waves explores the generation and characteristics of mechanical waves.
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Kepler's Laws
Keplers Laws depicts the momentous effort Kepler made to find a mathematical description for the motion of planets, particularly Mars.
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Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Fields examines the contributions of Gilbert, Oersted and Ampere in explaining the interaction between magnetic field and a moving charge.
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Models of the Atom
Models of the Atom follows the development of various models of the atom, starting with Daltons chemically-combining spheres, and continuing to the Bohr model and the current electron cloud model.
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Moving in Circles
Moving in Circles demonstrates the kinematics of circular motion, and the relationships among radius, velocity, and acceleration.
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Navigating in Space
Navigating in Space applies the celestial mechanics of Kepler and Newton to interplanetary travel.
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Newton's Laws
Newtons Laws describes Newtons great work of completing Galileos kinematics with dynamics (a theory of the causes of motion).
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Potential Difference and Capacitance
Potential Difference and Capacitance recaptures Franklins experiments in electricity, which support an understanding of modern capacitors and how they work.
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Simple DC Circuits
Simple DC Circuits explains Ohms law regarding current, voltage and resistance. A water flow metaphor is used to illustrate electric current.
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Special Relativity
Special Relativity illustrates the postulates of special relativity and how they lead to the failure of simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, and relativistic mass.
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Temperature and the Gas Laws
Temperature and the Gas Laws ties the observable properties of gas, such as temperature and pressure, to microscopic events, such as gas molecules striking container walls.
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