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Great ideas of classical physics

Title
Great ideas of classical physics [videorecording] / Steven Pollock.
Author
Pollock, Steven.
Publication
[Springfield, VA] : Teaching Co., c2006.

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Moving imageUse in library QC21.3 .P655 2006 guidebookOff-site
Moving imageUse in library QC21.3 .P655 2006 pt.1, disc 1-2 in 1albumOff-site
Moving imageUse in library QC21.3 .P655 2006 pt.2, disc 3-4 in 1albumOff-site

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Additional Authors
Teaching Company. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91045166
Description
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +
Series Statement
The great courses
Uniform Title
Great courses (DVD)
Subjects
Note
  • "Course no. 1295."
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Contents
Pt. 1: lecture 1. The great ideas of classical physics -- lecture 2. Describing motion - a break from Aristotle -- lecture 3. Describing ever more complex motion -- lecture 4. Astronomy as a bridge to modern physics -- lecture 5. Isaac Newton - The dawn of classical physics -- lecture 6. Newton quantified - force and acceleration -- lecture 7. Newton and the connections to astronomy -- lecture 8. Universal gravitation -- lecture 9. Newton's third law -- lecture 10. Conservation of momentum -- lecture 11. Beyond Newton - work and energy -- lecture 12. Power and the Newtonian synthesis -- pt. 2: lecture 13. Further developments - static electricity -- lecture 14. Electricity, magnetism, and force fields -- lecture 15. Electrical currents and voltage -- lecture 16. The origin of electric and magnetic fields -- lecture 17. Unification 1 - Maxwell's equations -- lecture 18. Unification II - electromagnetism and light -- lecture 19. Vibrations and waves -- lecture 20. Sound waves and light waves -- lecture 21. The atomic hypothesis -- lecture 22. Energy in systems - heat and thermodynamics -- lecture 23. Heat and the second law of thermodynamics -- lecture 24. The grand picture of classical physics.
ISBN
  • 9781598032543
  • 1598032542
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library