Physics: Cinema Classics
Side A: Mechanics
(I)
Side B: Mechanics (II) and Heat
Side C: Waves (I)
Side D: Waves (II) & Electricity and Magnetism
Side E: Conservation
Laws
Side F: Angular Momentum and Modern Physics
10 Time and Place
11 Measuring Short Distances (PSSC, 1959)
12 High Speed Photography (PSSC, 1958)
13 Drops and Splashes (Ealing, 1969)
14 Bullet and Egg (VA, 1989)
15 Relative Position: Who's Upside Down? (PSSC, 1960)
16 Relative Motion: Who's Moving? (PSSC, 1960)
17 Relative Motion: Carts on a Table (PP, 1968)
20 Uniform Motion
21 Dry Ice Puck (PSSC, 1959)
22 Air Table Puck and Automobile (Ealing, 1969)
30 Accelerated Motion
31 Accelerated Motion Air Track Glider (Ealing, 1965)
32 Dry Ice Puck (PSSC, 1960)
33 Air Table Puck and Motorcycle (Ealing, 1969)
34 An Accelerating Automobile (PSSC, 1960)
35 An Automobile Trip (PSSC, 1960)
36 Analyzing a Hurdle Race (PP, 1968)
37 Motion in an Accelerating Frame (PSSC, 1960)
40 Free Fall
41 Free Fall Ride (VA, 1989)
42 Falling Bowling Ball - 1 (PP, 1968)
43 Falling Bowling Ball - 2 (PP, 1968)
44 Falling "Down Under" in Australia (EBEC, 1970)
45 Falling Scale Model Bridge (PSSC, 1959)
46 Falling Ball (PSSC, 1959)
47 Falling Ball on Moving Cart (PSSC, 1960)
48 Ball Falling from Ship Mast (PP, 1968
50 Vectors
51 Adding Collinear Velocities (PSSC, 1960)
52 Dry Ice Puck (PSSC, 1959)
53 Cart Trip (Ealing, 1967)
54 Boat and River (PP, 1968)
60 Forces
61 Tug of War (EBEC, 1970)
62 Ice Skater (PSSC, 1959)
63 Deflecting Forces (PSSC, 1960)
64 Strength-to-Weight (PSSC, 1959)
70 Newton's Laws
71 Newton's First Law: Air Track (Ealing, 1965)
72 Table Cloth (VA, 1989)
73 One Force - Two Forces (PSSC, 1959)
74 One Mass - Two Masses (PSSC, 1959)
75 Newton's Second Law: Air Track (Ealing, 1965)
76 Up and Down in an Elevator (PF, 1963)
77 Newton's Third Law: Air Track (Ealing, 1965)
78 Fire Extinguisher (NA, 1990)
Side B: Mechanics (II) and Heat
10 Projectile Motion
11 Vertical & Horizontal Motion (PSSC, 1961)
12 Horizontal Ballistics (PSSC, 1961)
13 Ballistics (PSSC, 1961)
14 Ping Pong Ball Model (PSSC, 1960)
15 Air Table and Shotputter (Ealing, 1968)
16 Airplane and Flare (PP, 1968)
17 Snowmobile and Flare (PP, 1968)
20 Circular Motion
21 Vectors (PSSC, 1960)
22 Dry Ice Puck (PSSC, 1960)
23 Hammer Throw (EBEC, 1970)
24 Ball and Merry-Go-Round (VA, 1989)
25 Loop-the-Loop (VA, 1989)
26 Acceleration of Air Table Puck and Automobile (Ealing, 1969)
27 Forces on Air Table Puck and Model Airplane (Ealing, 1969)
28 Carnival Ride (PF, 1963)
29 Dry Ice Puck on Turntable (PSSC, 1960)
30 Periodic Motion
31 Large Pendulums (PSSC, 1958)
32 Glider on Curved Air Track (Ealing, 1965)
33 Sand Pendulums (ESS, 1963)
34 People on Swings (PSSC, 1960; EBBC, 1970; VA, 1989)
35 Ball on Spring (PSSC, 1960)
36 Pucks on an Air Table (Ealing, 1968)
37 Simple Harmonic Motion (PSSC, 1960)
40 Planetary Motion
41 Solar System Model (VA, 1989)
42 Retrograde Motion (PP, 1968)
43 Phases of the Moon (VA, 1989)
44 Tilt of the Earth (VA, 1989)
45 A Moon of Jupiter (PP, 1968)
46 Foucault Pendulum (PSSC, 1960)
47 Cavendish Experiment (PSSC, 1960; Ealing, 1968)
50 Heat and Temperature
51 Friction (EBEC, 1974)
52 Transfer of Heat (EBEC, 1974)
53 Thermal Expansion (EBEC, 1968)
54 Gas Laws - Boyle's Law (PSSC, 1962; Ealing, 1967)
55 Charles's Law (PSSC, 1962)
56 Pressure and Temperature (PSSC, 1959)
10 Wave Propagation
11 Wave Vocabulary (EBEC, 1961, 1974)
12 Energy Transfer (EBEC, 1961)
13 Various Media (PSSC, 1959)
14 Wave Machine (PSSC, 1959)
15 Longitudinal - Slinky (EBEC, 1974)
16 Sound (EBEC, 1961, 1974)
17 Ultrasound (EBEC, 1974)
18 Light (EBEC, 1961; PSSC, 1959)
19 Speed of Light (PSSC, 1959)
20 Periodic Waves
21 Ripple Tank (PSSC, 1961)
22 Sound (EBEC, 1970, 1974)
23 Electromagnetic Spectrum (EBEC, 1973)
24 Electric Power Line (PSSC, 1958)
25 Radio (EBEC, 1961)
26 Sound and Light (PSSC, 1961)
27 Doppler Effect - Trains and Automobiles (NA, 1990; MH, 1952)
28 Doppler Effect and Shock Waves - Ripple Tank (PSSC, 1961)
29 Doppler Effect Equations (MH, 1952)
30 Superposition
31 Computer Animation (EBEC, 1971)
32 Slinky (EBEC, 1971)
33 Radio (PSSC, 1961)
34 Microwaves (PSSC, 1961)
35 Lasers (EBEC, 1973)
40 Standing Waves
41 Wires (PP, 1968)
42 Wave Machine (EBEC, 1971; PSSC, 1961)
43 Slinky (EBEC, 1971)
44 Soap Film (EBEC, 1971)
45 Drum (PP, 1968)
46 Sound With An Oscilloscope (EBEC, 1972)
47 Sound With An Audiometer (PSSC, 1961)
48 Resonance - Sound (EBEC, 1961)
49 Microwaves (PSSC, 1961)
50 Reflection
51 Slinky (EBEC, 1961)
52 Wave Machine (PSSC, 1959)
53 Water- Plane Surfaces (EBEC, 1976; PSSC, 1961)
54 Water- Curved Surfaces (PSSC, 1961)
55 Sound (PSSC, 1961)
56 Radio (PSSC, 1959; EBEC, 1961)
57 Light - Plane Surfaces (PSSC, 1959; EBEC, 1976)
58 Light- Curved Surfaces (EBEC, 1961, 1971, 1976)
60 Refraction
61 Car On Carpet (EBEC, 1976)
62 Water (PSSC, 1961)
63 Sound (PSSC, 1961)
64 Light - Pencil (EBEC, 1971, 1976)
65 Light - Aquarium (PSSC, 1959)
66 Light - Swimming Pool (PSSC, 1959)
67 Light - Lenses (EBEC, 1976)
70 Dispersion
71 Water Waves (PSSC, 1961)
72 Light (EBEC, 1961, 1971, 1976)
80 Miscellaneous
81 Surfing Waves (NA, 1990)
Side D: Waves (II) & Electricity and Magnetism
10 Interference
11 Water Waves - Ripple Tank (PSSC, 1961)
12 Sound Transmission (EBEC, 1972)
13 Grating Reflections of Water and Sound (PSSC, 1961)
14 Light - Single Slit (PP, 1963)
15 Light - Double Slits (PP, 1961; PSSC, 1960)
16 Soap Film (PSSC, 1959)
17 Holography (EBEC, 1972)
20 Diffraction
21 Water Waves - Ripple Tank (PSSC, 1961)
22 Water Waves - Bragg Diffraction (NAP, 1950; PSSC, 1961)
23 Sound (PSSC, 1961)
24 Light - Eye of a Needle (PSSC, 1959)
25 Bragg Diffraction Equation (NAP, 1950)
30 Color, Scattering, Polarization
31 Colors - Red, Green, and Blue (EBEC, 1961)
32 Color - Reflection and Absorption (EBEC, 1961, 1974)
33 Color - Spectral Analysis (EBEC, 1961; PP, 1963)
34 Scattering - Light (PSSC, 1959)
35 Polarization - Radio (PSSC, 1960)
36 Polarization - Microwaves (PSSC, 1960)
37 Polarization - Light (PSSC, 1960)
40 Electrostatics
41 Demonstrations (EBEC, 1961, 1964; PSSC, 1959)
42 Induction (Ealing, 1967)
43 Electric Lines of Force (PSSC, 1959)
44 Van de Graaff Generator (Ealing, 1967; EBEC, 1961)
45 Faraday Ice Pail Experiment (Ealing, 1967)
46 Coulomb's Law (PSSC, 1959, 1961)
50 Electric Currents
51 Simple Electrical Cells (EBEC, 1964)
52 Electroplating (EBEC, 1961, 1974)
53 A Simple Circuit (EBEC, 1961)
54 Conductors and Insulators (EBEC, 1974)
55 Automobile Electrical Circuits (EBEC, 1961)
56 The Water Analogy (EBEC, 1961)
60 Magnetism and
Magnetic Fields
61 Magnets in Old Time Movies (EBEC, 1975)
62 Picking Up Tacks (EBEC, 1961)
63 Breaking A Magnetized Needle (EBEC, 1975)
64 Iron Filings (EBEC, 1961, 1975)
65 Magnets on an Incline (EBEC, 1961, 1975)
66 Magnetic Rings (EBEC, 1961)
67 Colliding Magnets (PSSC, 1959; EBEC, 1961)
68 Magnetic Media (EBEC, 1975)
69 Permanent Magnets Explained (EBEC, 1975)
70 Electromagnetism
71 Magnets and Wires (EBEC, 1964, 1974, 1975)
72 Electromagnetic Induction (EBEC, 1964, 1974, 1975)
73 Electromagnets (EBEC, 1964, 1974, 1975; NA, 1990)
74 How Motors and Generators Work (EBEC, 1964)
75 Magnetic Effects on Electron Beams (PSSC, 1959)
76 Field as a Vector (Ealing, 1969)
77 Magnetic Field of a Coil (Ealing, 1969)
78 Magnetic Force on a Conductor (Ealing, 1969)
79 Electrons in a Magnetic Field (PSSC, 1959)
10 Work and Energy
11 Work and Machines (EBEC, 1982)
12 Nails Into Wood (PP, 1968)
13 Pole Vault (PP, 1968)
14 Work and Kinetic Energy (PSSC, 1959)
15 Pile Driver (PP, 1968)
16 Automobile Smasher (EBEC, 1961)
20 Energy Conservation
21 Swinging Bowling Ball (EBEC, 1961)
22 Flying Acrobats (EBEC, 1961)
23 Water Wheel (EBEC, 1961)
24 Roller Coaster (NA, 1990)
25 Skateboarding (NA, 1990)
26 Rube Goldberg Device (PSSC, 1959)
27 Carnival Ride (PSSC, 1959)
30 Linear
Momentum
31 Recoil of a Cannon (PP, 1968)
32 Momentum of a Rifle Bullet (PP, 1968)
33 Air Table Pucks - Center of Mass (Ealing, 1968)
34 Dry Ice Pucks - Defining Center of Mass (PSSC, 1966)
35 Repulsive Dry Ice Pucks (PSSC, 1966)
40 Elastic
Collisions
41 Pendulum Collisions - One Dimensional Elastic (PP, 1968)
42 Pendulum Collisions - Two Dimensional Elastic (PP, 1968)
43 Air Table - Elastic Collisions (Ealing, 1968)
44 Collisions Between Magnetic Dry Ice Pucks (PSSC, 1966)
45 Scattering of a Cluster of Objects (PP, 1968)
50 Inelastic
Collisions
51 Pendulum Collisions - One Dimensional Inelastic (PP, 1968)
52 Pendulum Collisions - Two Dimensional Inelastic (PP, 1968)
53 Air Table - Inelastic Collisions (Ealing, 1968)
54 Putty Dry Ice Pucks (PSSC, 1966)
55 Air Track - Inelastic Collisions (Ealing, 1965)
60
Collisions
61 Automobiles (PSSC, 1961)
62 Baseball and Bat (PSSC, 1961)
63 Billiard Balls (PP, 1968)
64 Football Drills (PSSC, 1959)
65 Freight Cars (PP, 1968)
66 Spheres and Magnets (EBEC, 1961)
67 Tennis (PSSC, 1959)
68 Wrecking Ball (PSSC, 1959)
Side F: Angular Momentum and Modern Physics
10
Angular Momentum
11 A Spinning Bicycle Wheel (PSSC, 1962)
12 Double Spinning Bicycle Wheels (PSSC, 1962)
13 Angular Momentum Vectors (PSSC, 1962)
14 Torque on a Gyroscope (PSSC, 1962)
15 Torques on a Bicycle Wheel (PSSC, 1962)
16 Mystery Sphere (PSSC, 1962)
17 Bicycle Wheel Puzzle (PSSC, 1962)
18 Merry-Go-Round (VA, 1989)
20 Atoms, Molecules and Models
21 Electrolysis of Water (PSSC, 1960; EBEC, 1982)
22 Electrochemical Cell (EBEC, 1982)
23 Atomic Motion: A Microscopic View (PSSC, 1961)
24 Thomson Model of the Atom (PP, 1968)
25 The Rutherford Atom: The Experiment (PSSC, 1961)
26 The Rutherford Atom: Classical Analogies (PSSC, 1961)
27 The Rutherford Atom: Computer Simulation (PP, 1968)
28 Bohr Model of the Atom (EBEC, 1961, 1975)
29 Brownian Motion (EBEC, 1982)
30 Photons and X-rays
31 Photoemission by Sunlight (PSSC, 1961)
32 Photoemission by Light From a Carbon Arc Lamp (PSSC, 1961)
33 Photoelectric Experiment (PSSC, 1961)
34 Production of X-rays (NAP, 1950)
40 Electrons
41 Properties of Electrons (EBEC, 1961, 1970)
42 The Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (EBEC, 1970)
43 Millikan Experiment (PSSC, 1959)
50 Particles and Waves
51 Comparing Particles and Waves (PSSC, 1961)
52 Electron Diffraction (PSSC, 1961)
53 Davisson-Germer Experiment: First Detection of Matter Waves (PSSC, 1961)
54 G.P. Thomson's Experiment: Early Detection of Matter Waves (PSSC, 1961)
55 Wave Model of the Atom (PP, 1968; EBEC, 1971)
60 Nuclear Physics
61 Radioactive Decay (EBEC, 1975)
62 Cloud Chamber (PSSC, 1959, 1961; EBEC, 1975)
63 Discovery of the Neutron: A Mechanical Analogy (PP, 1968)
64 Fission (EBEC, 1975)
65 The Bomb (PSSC, 1959; EBEC, 1975)
66 A Nuclear Reactor (EBEC, 1975)
70 Condensed Matter
71 Crystal Lattices (NAP, 1950)
72 X-ray Diffraction (NAP, 1950)
73 Crystal Models (NAP, 1950)