Physics Lecture Demonstration Short Films
(From the 1960's Film Loops)
There is no sound on this short films


I. Mechanics (Quicktime Movies):
 
 

Number

Length
(m:s)

Title

1

3:40

Newton's Law of Motion

2

4:09

Newton's First and Second Laws

3

2:51

Newton's Third Law

4

2:15

Velocity and Acceleration in Free Fall

5

3:50

The Acceleration Vector

6

3:00

The Velocity Vector

7

3:30

Velocity and Acceleration in Circular Motion

8

2:00

Velocity and Acceleration in Simple Harmonic Motion

9

4:12

Constant Velocity and Uniform Acceleration

10

2:40

Velocity in Circular and Simple Harmonic Motion

11

2:35

Orbiting Bodies in Various Force Fields (Part I. Positive Power Laws)

12

3.35

Orbiting Bodies in Various Force Fields (Part II. Negative Power Laws)

13

3:40

Fixed System of Orbiting Bodies

14

2:20

Moving System of Orbiting Bodies

15

3:36

Rotating Reference Frames

16

2:33

Conservation of Energy

17

3:00

Galilean Relativity (Projectile Fired Vertically)

18

2:55

Galilean Relativity (A Ball Dropped From the Top of a Ship Mast)

19

4:25

Measurement of "G" (The Cavendish Experiment)  {Sorry! This one needs to be redone)

20

4:00

Coupled Oscillators  (Energy Transfer)

21

2:35

Collisions in Two Dimensions

22

2:55

Energy Transfer in Collisions

23

4:00

The Center of Mass

24

3:30

Dynamics of a Billiard Ball

25

5:00

Wilberforce Pendulum

26

3:45

The Triumph of Mechanics (Vibrations of a Medal Plate)

27

3:45

Standing Waves in a Gas

28

3:55

Conservation of Energy (Pole Vault)

29

3:25

Coupled Oscillators and Other Oscillators


II. Temperature (Quicktime Movies):
 
 

Number

Length
(m:s)

Title

1

4:00

Temperature Waves

2

4:00

Thermal Expansion of Gases

3

4:00

Gas Diffusion Rates

4

3:45

Thermal Expansion of Liquids

5

5:00

Critical Temperature

6

4:00

Maxwellian Speed Distribution

7

2:15

Brownian Motion and Temperature

8

3:50

Random Walk and Brownian Motion

9

4:00

Diffusion

10

2:55

Equipartition of Energy


 

III. Wave Motion (Quicktime Movies):
 
 

Number

Length
(m:s)

Title

1

2:45

Refraction of Waves

2

4:00

Interference of Waves

3

3:30

Single Slit Diffraction

4

3:25

Multiple Slit Diffraction

5

3:40

Soap Film Oscillations

6

3:45

Formation of Shock Waves

7

3:45

Doppler Effect

8

3:00

Straight Wave Reflection From Straight Barriers

9

4:00

Reflection of Waves From Concave Barriers

10

3:25

Vibration of a Drum

11

4:00

Bragg Reflection of Waves

12

3:55

Nonrecurrent Wavefrounts

13

4:00

Drops and Splashes

14

4:40

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse

15

3:40

Standing Electromagnetic Waves

16

2:15

Barrier Penetration by Waves

17

3:45

Circular Wave Reflection From Various Barriers

18

2:30

Effect of Phase Differences Between Sources

19

3:55

Resolving Power

20

3:40

Interference of Waves in a Ripple Tank

21

2:50

Diffraction and Scattering of Waves Around Obstacles in a Ripple Tank

22

3:25

Superposition of Pulses in a Ripple Tank

IV. Electricity and Magnetism (Quicktime Movies):
 
 

Number

Length
(m:s)

Title

1

4:50

Ferromagnetic Domain Wall Motion

2

3:20

The Field Formed by a Steady Current

3

  The Van De Graaff Generator

4

3:45

Meters

5

3:30

Hydrogen-Oxygen Batter and Fuel Cell

6

3:40

Paramagnetism of Liquid Oxygen


V. Light and Modern Physics (Quicktime Movies):
 
 

Number

Length
(m:s)

Title

1

2:05

Bubble Model of a Crystal (Structure and Boundaries)

2

3:00

Bubble Model of a Crystal (Deformation and Dislocations)

3

3:35

Mass Spectra

4

4:00

Mass of  an Atom

5

3:50

Rutherford Scattering

6

4:55

Radioactive Decay

7

3:25

Emission Spectra

8

3:20

Visible and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy

9

3:50

Absorption Spectra

10

4:45

Michelson Interferometer

11

4:02

The Photoelectric Effect

12

4:00

Reversibility of Time

13

4:00

Packets in a Perfect Crystal (Wave Packets in Periodic Potentials)

14

3:00

Scattering From Impurities (Wave Packets in Periodic Potentials)

15

4:00

Packets Incident on a Crystal (Wave Packets in Periodic Potentials)

16

3:45

Why is the Sky Blue?

17

3:00

Scattering in One Dimension (Part 1: Barriers)

18

2:40

Scattering in One Dimension (Part 2: Square Wells)

19

4:00

Scattering in One Dimension (Part 3: Edge Effects)

20

3:00

Scattering in One Dimension (Part 4: Mementum Space)


VII. Relativity (Quicktime Movies):
 
 

Number

Length
(m:s)

Title

Size(Kb)

1

4:10

The Speed of Projectiles, Sound, and Light 4586

2

4:05

Simultaneity is Relative 4277

3

4:05

The Mechelson-Morley Experiment 3844

4

3:50

Length Contraction 4102

5

3:30

Time Dilation 4091

6

3:55

The Doppler Effect and the Twin Paradox 4501

7

4:00

World Lines 3774

8

4:14

Coordinate Transformation 3943


VII. Relativity (Quicktime Movies):
 
 

Number

Length
(m:s)

Title

Size(Kb)

1

4:10

The Speed of Projectiles, Sound, and Light 4586

2

4:05

Simultaneity is Relative 4277

3

4:05

The Mechelson-Morley Experiment 3844

4

3:50

Length Contraction 4102

5

3:30

Time Dilation 4091

6

3:55

The Doppler Effect and the Twin Paradox 4501

7

4:00

World Lines 3774

8

4:14

Coordinate Transformation 3943