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UNLV LIBRARY America's Achievements in Space. MEDIA RESOURCES CATALOG Easton Press PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY Vol. I: New View of Space, 28 min. Summer 2011 Friendship 7, 58 min. Vol. II: Apollo 8-Go for TLI, 22 min Aircraft Design. Gemini 4, 28 min. PBS Video (1990) Mariner 9, 29 min. Students will see that only through an Vol. III: Voyager, 25 min. understanding of math could engineers Gemini 8 - This is Houston Flight, design aircrafts. 28 min. Video Cassette (15 min.) Who's Out There?, 28 min. QA 10.5 F882 Vol. IV: Space Shuttle , A Remarkable Flying Machine, 30 Amazing Planet. min. Distributed by Warner Home Video, Apollo 9: The Space Duet of [2007] Spider & Gumdrop, 29 min. In this 3 hour series, one can witness Jupiter Odyssey, 28 min. in seconds what took the Earth eons to Vol. V: The Flight of Apollo 11, create: bumper-car continents; ice ages 29 min. pulsing out of the poles and back; the Freedom 7, 29 min. Himalayas surging upwards; sand dunes Gemini XII Mission, 25 min. swallowing, then uncovering African villages, Vol. VI: Universe, 28 min. and more! Apollo 13: Houston We've Got a 2 videodiscs (ca. 180 min.) Problem!, 28 min. QE501.2 .A43 2007 Space Shuttle Columbia - The Second Flight, 29 min. Vol. VII: Four Rooms - Earth View, 28 min. The Flight of Faith 7, 28 min. Apollo 15: In the Mountain of the Moon, 28 min Vol. VIII: Apollo 16: Nothing So Hidden, 28 min. Planet Mars, 29 min. Mission of Apollo-Soyuz, 29 min. Vol. IX: Apollo 17: On the Shoulders of Giants, 28 min. Mercury - Exploration of a Planet, 24 min. We Deliver (Shuttle Flights 5-8), 29 min. Vol. X: The World Was There (Mercury), 28 min. Legacy of Gemini, 28 min. The Time of Apollo, 28 min. 10 Video Cassettes TL 789.8 U5 A44 vol. 1-10

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Ancient Inventions. Automotive Design. A&E Home Video (1997) PBS (1990) Describes examples of technologies Nigel Bennett, famous race car found in ancient civilizations that indicate the designer, encourages students to "get all the knowledge of steam power, magnetism, and math and physics you can if you want to other principles centuries before they were become involved in automotive design. "discovered" and exploited in more recent Video Cassette (15 min.) times as well as other technologies like the QA 10.5 F882 lifting of heavy stones in ancient architecture that are still not understood by modern man. The Best Mind Since Einstein. 1 Video Cassette (90 min.) WGBH Educational Foundation T173.8 .A48 1997 Nova presents a profile of the late Richard Feynman - atomic bomb pioneer, Applications of Conic Sections. Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed Films for the Humanities (1997) teacher and all-around eccentric. Some examples of conic sections in Video Cassette (54 min.) everyday life lead to a detailed study of two QC16.F49 B47 1993 numerical applications of conic sections: parabolic versus ellipsoidal headlight Beyond the Moon: Failure is Not an designs in cars and the hyperbola-shaped Option 2. path of the sonic boom of an airplane. A&E Television Networks (2005) Video Cassette (10 min.) In 1969, the engineers of Mission QA 485 A66 Control assume that America's great push will continue: a moon base, shuttle, space Applications to Physics. station, manned flights to Mars... But as a Educational Video Resources (1992) growing number of political, social and Introduces how calculus can be economic problems vie for the nation's applied to the study of physics. attention - and money - Congress, Video Cassette (28 min.) Presidents, and the American public is not QA303 .A63 so sure. Is manned space flight really worth the cost? Is it worth the risk? To some, Asteroids and Comets: Earth's Threat answers to these questions remain unclear from Above. even today. But for legendary flight director Films for the Humanities (1998) Gene Kranz and the men and women of A discussion of humankind's place in Mission Control, there is no doubt. Despite the universe and the likelihood of a collision waning public support and shrinking between the earth and a large Near-Earth budgets, they still have a job to do, a job Object. where lives hang in the balance and there is Video Cassette (49 min.) no room for error. This video tells the little- QB 377 A77 known story of America's post-Apollo space program, from the point of view of the Automotive advances. 1. engineers of Mission Control. Through their Chip Taylor Communications (2001) experiences, we get a first hand look at life News items about technological inside Mission Control, as these driven advances for automobiles involving in-car engineers continue to push the boundaries traffic conditions displays, rapid engineering of spaceflight from 1972 into the new of automobiles, safety systems for luxury century. cars, a three-wheeled car, manufacturing of 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) car parts, aluminum in cars, and electric TL873 .B49 2005 cars. 1 Video Cassette (21 min.) TL240 .A42 2001

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Big Bang Theory. Change and Motion: Calculus Made MPI Home Video Clear. Discusses new evidence found to The Teaching Company (2001) support the big bang theory. This is the 24 lectures by Professor Michael theory that the universe started from a speck Starbird of the University of Texas, Austin of energy that exploded to form the cover the concepts of Calculus. universe. Pt. 1. Tape 1. Video Cassette (23 min.) 1. Two ideas, vast implications QB991.B54 B43 1992 2. Stop sign crime : the first idea of calculus Black Holes. 3. Another car, another crime : the New River Media second idea of calculus Explores the origins of astronomical 4. The fundamental theorem of calculus black holes. Explains where they come from Tape 2. and where they might be found. 5. Visualizing the derivative Video Cassette (52 min.) 6. Abstracting the derivative : circles, QB843.B55 .B584 1997 squares, and belts 7. Derivatives the easy way Bye Bye Planet Pluto. 8. Galileo, Newton and baseball Films for the Humanities & Sciences Tape 3. (2006) 9. The best of all possible worlds : Describes the discovery of Pluto and optimization – looks at the scientific debate that resulted in 10. Circles, pyramids, cones and spheres Pluto's demotion to a minor planet. 11. Archimedes and onions -- 1 videodisc (50 min.) 12. The integral : a process of summing QB701 .B84 2006 Pt. 2. Tape 1. 13. Abstracting the integral : areas, volumes and dams 14. The fundamental theorem at work 15. Buffon's needle : pi from breadsticks 16. Zeno's arrow : the concept of limit Tape 2. 17. Real numbers and predictability of the continuous – 18. Zeno, calculators and infinite series 19. Mountain slopes and tangent planes 20. Getting off the line : motion in space Tape 3. 21. Physics, music, and the planets 22. Business and economics : getting rich and going broke 23. Palpitations, population, perch and pachyderms 24. Calculus everywhere 6 Video Cassettes (12 hrs 30 min.) QA303 .C53 2001

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Chasing El Nino. Cosmos: Encyclopedia Galactica. WGBH (1998) Carl Sagan Productions (1989) Scientists trace the ultimate weather Explores the probable nature of machine with a series of information- intelligent civilizations in the universe and gathering buoys stationed across 8,000 the means by which contact might be made. miles of the Pacific Basin. Dr. Sagan notes that the "Rosetta Stone" for Video Cassette (1 hr.) interstellar communication is likely to involve GC 296.8 E4 C43 the laws of physics-shared observations about the universe, such as the spectra of Conceptual Physics. the elements and the constant speed of Addison-Wesley (1987) light. Introduction (15 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Newton's First Law (28 min.) QP 376 P47 Pressure (15 min.) Newton's Third Law (27 min.) Cosmos: Heaven and Hell. Relativity (29 min.) Carl Sagan Productions (1989) Atmospheric Pressure (27 min.) The underlying theme is the Evaporation & Boiling (24 min.) interaction of 2 diametrically opposed Condensation (17 min.) processes--gradualism and catastrophism-- Waves & Sound (30 min.) which in concert are responsible for the Polarized Light & 3-D Viewing evolution of our universe, solar system, and (30 min.) life on earth. Using the Tunguska blast as a Electrostatics (29 min.) starting point, Dr. Sagan discusses Nuclear Fusion (25 min.) meteorites and comets. A miniature solar 12 Video Cassettes system illustrates the hypotheses of QC 23 C65 pt. 1-12 Velikovsky, and theories about the planet Venus. The concept of comparative Contact UFO: Alien Abductions. planetology is introduced. Maljack Prod. (1991) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Investigates personal accounts of QB 981 H37 abduction by alien beings. Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) Cosmos: Journeys in Space and Time. TL 789.3 C65 Carl Sagan Productions (1989) Computer animation places the Cosmic Time. constellations in space and explains the Films for the Humanities & Sciences concept of a light year. Einstein's theory of (2007) relativity is introduced and his percepts of String field theory pioneer Michio space and time are illustrated. The Kaku presents this look at the cosmic feasibility of interstellar travel is discussed landscape and its relationship to time. with a brief history of ideas proposed for 1 videodisc (50 min.) space travel. Time travel is touched upon. QC173.59.S65 C67 2007 Video Cassette (1 hr.) Q 125 B32 Cosmos: Blues for a Red Planet. Carl Sagan Productions (1989) Cosmos: One Voice in the Cosmic From a review of man's fascination Fugue. with Mars and theories about the planet, Carl Sagan Productions (1989) notably those of Percival Lowell, the film Addresses the question of life and its turns to the exploration of Mars. origins. Speculates on life in other worlds. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Molecular biology, the Miller/Urey QB 641 B58 experiment, and DNA are examined. Video Cassette (1 hr.) QB 981 S56

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Cosmos: The Backbone of Night. Cosmos: The Lives of the Stars. Carl Sagan Productions (1989) Carl Sagan Productions (1989) Dr. Sagan visits the island of Samos A discussion of the building blocks of to explore the scientific outburst of ancient matter leads to an explanation of the Ionian physicists. Anaximander of Miletus anatomy of stars and the forces that act on constructed a sun dial, a celestial globe, and stellar interiors. Stellar evolution, a map of the known world. Empedocles supernovae, and neutron stars are all dealt made discoveries about the nature of air. with. Democritus posited the concept of the atom Video Cassette (1 hr.) and Aristarchus began the long quest to QB 801 L58 answer the question, "What are the stars?" Science as a structured body of knowledge Cosmos: The Persistence of Memory. was born, but it declined in the wake of From the modern view that whales Pythagorean and Platonic mysticism. represent an intelligent species, Dr. Sagan Video Cassette (1 hr.) moves to the study of genetic information, Q 125 B32 the function of the human brain, brain size and behavior, relationship of brain and Cosmos: The Edge of Forever. environment, and the physiological synaptic Carl Sagan Productions (1989) response. Cultural myths of human creation lead Video Cassette (1 hr.) to an early history of the universe, QP 376 P47 introducing the Big Bang theory. Computer animation explains galactic formation and Cosmos: The Shores of the Cosmic dynamics and a demonstration of the Ocean. Doppler effect provides an understanding of Carl Sagan Productions (1989) the red shift of light waves. Dr. Sagan visits Begins with a guided tour of the India to show how the Hindus seem to have universe from clusters of galaxies to the arrived at conclusions approximating Milky Way to Earth, landing in Egypt. modern scientific cosmology, the possibility Discoveries of Eratosthenes are introduced-- of an oscillating universe. Radio astronomy- the measurement of Earth's circumference -the VLA in New Mexico--is seen as one of and its spherical nature. The dawn of the new advances in technology which will systematic scientific research and the contribute to further understanding of the Alexandrian Library are discussed. cosmos. Concludes with the "cosmic calendar," a Video Cassette (1 hr.) journey through time from the Big Bang to QB 801 L58 the present. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Cosmos: The Harmony of the Worlds. Book (293 p.) Carl Sagan Productions (1989) QB 981 S56 The first attempts of humans to interpret the character of the heavens Cosmos: Traveler's Tales. portrayed in the stars as a kind of extension Carl Sagan Productions (1989) of the familiar world. Using myths and star At NASA, Dr. Sagan and colleagues charts, Dr. Sagan explores how each society conduct an exploratory mission, the Voyager has peopled the heavens. A dramatic II's close encounter with Jupiter and its recreation of Johannes Kepler's life and satellites. Actual Voyager images illustrate work brings an understanding of efforts of the explanation of how data is transmitted Copernicus, Galileo, and Isaac Newton. and processed, and the nature of the Jovian Video Cassette (1 hr.) system. Space exploration in the 20th QB 981 H37 century is contrasted with exploration in the 17th century. Video Cassette (1 hr.) QB 641 B58

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Cosmos: Who Speaks for Earth. The Day After Trinity. Carl Sagan Productions (1989) Pyramid (1981) Recalls the highlights of the first 12 Examines the life of J. Robert episodes of the series. The great themes of Oppenheimer, principle architect of the Cosmos--the ideas of cosmic evolution and atomic bomb. Journeys through the scientific approach, history as an exemplary development of the bomb, from its teacher, and the limitedness of our particular beginnings through the aftermath of its use islands of perceptions--are woven together on Japan. Focuses on Oppenheimer's with some cautionary warnings about the opposition to the continued development of types of futures we face as a species and as nuclear weapons during the McCarthy era of a planet. the 1950s. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Video Cassette (1 hr. 28 min.) QB 631 W56 QC 774 066 D39

Countdown to the Invisible Universe. Daytime. Coronet Film & Video (198?) Films for the Humanities & Sciences In 1983, a research satellite known as (2007) IRAS provided scientists with more raw This video helps to answer the information about the universe than they had question: Where does our sense of time ever encountered. Translating IRAS' data come from? Host Michio Kaku interviews the into their own color-coding language, scientist who first detected the neurological scientists have for the first time been able to stopwatch that gives us our awareness of catalog details of the infrared sky and time, meets a father and daughter whose accurately visualize the different body clocks are speeded up, and visits a temperature regions found throughout our gorilla in captivity who has a rudimentary galaxy and beyond. sense of time. Video Cassette (58 min.) 1 videodisc (50 min.) Guide (2 p.) QP445 .D38 2007 QB 136 C68 Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius. Creation of the Universe. WGBH Boston Video (1998) PBS (1988) Nova explores the world of Vesuvius Identifies and explains some of the and other volcanoes, and tours the ruins of most challenging ideas and theories in Pompeii. Scientists study Vesuvius to contemporary science, including the new predict when it will erupt again. unified theories and a theory that the Video Cassette (1 hr.) universe could have appeared QE523.V4 D43 1998 spontaneously out of a perfect vacuum. Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) Death of a Star. QB 981 C85 Coronet Film & Video (198?) Nova Documents the discovery of Dark Circle. Supernova 1987A, as well as the Docurama (2006) collaboration of astronomers to monitor and A documentary that follows the trail of study this event. Records the evolution of plutonium from the Rocky Flats Nuclear the understanding of 1987A as seen through Weapons facility in Colorado, to the Diablo the eyes of the astronomers. Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California, to Video Cassette (58 min.) Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Guide (2 p. ) 1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) QB 843 S95 D43 HD9698.U62 D37 2006

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A Decade of Dark Energy. Earth Time. Space Telescope Science Institute, 2008 Films for the Humanities & Sciences "This is the first, experimental, (2007) publication of the STScI symposium Host Michio Kaku leads the viewer on proceedings on DVD. The DVDs contain the topic of the progression of geological video of the presentations and discussion, and human evolution and the time frames as well as electronic versions of the that dwarf human life spans. presenters' slides and poster 1 videodisc (50 min.) contributions"—Container. QE508 .E27 2007 2 videodiscs QB791.3 .D43 2008 +leaflet Earthspace: The Magnetosphere. NASA (1983?) Demonstrations in Lasers and Optics. Solar flares causing magnetic storms on MIT (1990) earth: what it is, how it was discovered, what 1. Overview (34 min.) has been learned about it. 2. Optics: Polarization (38 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) 3. Optics: Dielectric Boundaries(31 QC 809 M35 E27 min.) 4. Optics: Two-Beam Interference (57 Eclipse of the Century. min.) WGBH (1991) 5. Optics: Multiple Beam Interference Shows the preparations of scientists (38 min.) in the days preceding the July 1991 eclipse. 6. Optics: Diffraction (52 min.) Also includes a breathtaking look at the 7. Optics: Optical Fibers (18 min.) sky's exciting event. 8. Laser Fundamentals I (47 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) 9. Laser Fundamentals II (1 hr.) QB 544.91 E25 10. Laser Fundamentals III (44 min.) 10 Video Cassettes Einstein: The Man Behind the Genius. TA 1675 D44 tapes 1-10 Kultur (2000) Explores Einstein's private life. The Doomsday Asteroid. 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) Nova. WGBH (1995) QC16.E5 E364 2000 Scanning the skies and earth for evidence that giant rocks from outer space Einstein Revealed. have struck before and will strike again. WGBH Boston Video (1996) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Gives a portrait of the physicist Albert QB 651 D66 Einstein as a passionate young man. 1 videocassette (111 min.) Earth Explorer QC16.E5 E516 1996 WGBH/Boston (1995) Profiles the career of geophysicist Marcia McNutt, tenured professor in earth sciences at M.I.T. Her research on the earth's geological plates centers on a critical juncture beneath Lake Mead, Nevada and the xenoliths of Tahiti. Video Cassette (1 hr) QC805.M32 E27

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Einstein's Unfinished Symphony. [Einstein] A. Einstein: How I See the Films for the Humanities & Sciences World. (2005) PBS Home Video ; Atlanta, GA : Turner "Revolted by quantum theory, Home Entertainment, 1995 Einstein spent his final decades trying to Chronicles how the world's most create and all-encompassing mathematical famous Nobel Prize winner, scientist Albert model of the universe in which God indeed Einstein, became its most eloquent does not play dice. In this program, advocate for peace. News films show the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and public figure, home movies reveal the experts from Cambridge, MIT, and private man, and much of the film is told in elsewhere discuss Einstein's revolutionary Einstein's own words, which have been time/space theories of 1905, the excerpted from his diaries, personal letters ascendancy of quantum mechanics and and writings. string theory, and Einstein's unswerving Video Cassette ( 56 min.) belief that the laws of nature--elegant and QC16.E5 A412 1995 precise--must reveal a universe of divine predictability down to the last subatomic Electron/Photon Interactions. particle. A gripping dramatization of University of Nevada Las Vegas (1988) Einstein's last two days paints a vivid portrait By Steven Barile & James Barker. of an idealistic scientist who never gave up Video Cassette (30 min.) seeking"—Container. QC 173 P56 1 videodisc (50 min.) QC16.E5 E52 2005 The Elegant Universe. Boston Video (2003) Einstein's Big Idea. Physicist Brian Greene discusses the WGBH Boston Video (2005) historical quest for a grand unified theory in Einstein arrived at his 1905 discovery physics that will reconcile quantum physics that the realms of matter and energy are and general relativity, and considers the linked. Reveals the roots of this possibility that superstring theory may bring breakthrough in the human stories of an end to that search. scientists Michael Farady, Antoine Lavoisier, 2 videodiscs (180 min.) and Lise Meitner, whose innovative thinking QC794.6.S85 G752 2003 helped lead to E=mc², and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom. Endeavour. 1 videodisc (approx. 112 min.) Public Media Education (1994) QC73.8.C6 B632 2005 Dr. Mae Jemison talks about life aboard the space shuttle Endeavour and Einstein's Wife: The Life of Mileva how she realized her dream of becoming a Einstein-Maric. NASA astronaut. PBS Video,(2003) Video Cassette (30 min.) Einstein's first wife, a brilliant TL 788.5 E53 mathematician, collaborated with him on some of his famous works. This video uses Environment: Nuclear Power. long-hidden documents, love letters and Diana Wyllie Ltd. biographies to piece together their Unit 1: Harnessing the Atom; Unit 2: partnership. Radioactivity and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle; 1 videodisc (60 min.) Unit 3: Fast Breeder Reactors and the QC16.E5 E527 2003 Nuclear Economy. Notes for Each Unit. 44 Slides (ca. 48/unit) 3 Cassettes TK 9145 N8

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Eyes in the Sky. Flying the Blimp. Discovery Video (1995) WGBH (1990) Satellites have a new role in Revisits the early years of blimps. commercial, scientific and environmental Boards the luxury cabin of the Hindenburg. applications that make us even more Introduces entrepreneurs as they launch a dependent on their watchfulness. Takes an new breed of blimp. Glimpses of "The in-depth look at the satellites that watch over Whale", a cyclocrane, and the world's us. largest hot-air dirigible in tropical French Video Cassette (1 hr. 40 min.) Guiana. TL 796 E84 Video Cassette (1 hr.) TL 656.2 B55 Fast Cars. Nova. WGBH (1995) For All Mankind. Follows a racer and engineers as they Criterion Collection (1999) design a faster car. Insights from top A look at America’s first manned drivers. flights to the moon told by the 24 men who Video Cassette (1 hr.) traveled to the moon and using the images TL 236 F37 from their experiences. 1 videodisc (79 min.) Faster Than Sound. TL 789.8 U6 A5246 1999 WGBH Boston Video, (1997) Chronicles the events leading up to Freeman Dyson. Glorious Accident. the designing of planes that could break the Films for the Humanities (1994) sound barrier without going out of control, An interview with Freeman Dyson, a interviewing the designers, engineers and physicist with a particular interest in pilots who helped achieve supersonic flight. mathematics, nuclear and astro physics. 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) TL571 .F37 1997 Q 171 G56 no. 5

The Fire Below Us: Remembering Mount From CAD to Success Story. St. Helens. Films for the Humanities (1992) Global Network Prod. (1990) Traces the development of a new Devastation footage combined with BMW automobile, from design and reenactments show what it was like to live construction to its availability to the public. through the eruption. Video Cassette (44 min.) Video Cassette (68 min.) TL 240 F76 Guide (12 p.) QE 523 S23 F572 From the Earth to the Moon HBO Video, [2005] Flight to the Moon. disc 1: pt. 1. Can we do this? pt. 2. Films for the Humanities (1989) Apollo one pt. 3. We have cleared the Covers the Apollo Project. Shows tower many of the historic elements of the moon disc 2: pt. 4.1968 pt. 5. landings and ends with the Apollo-Soyuz Spider pt. 6. Mare tranquilitatis docking. disc 3: pt. 7. That's all Video Cassette (28 min.) there is pt. 8. We interrupt this TL 789.8 U6 A535 program pt. 9. For miles and miles disc 4: pt. 10. Galileo was right ; pt. 11. The original wives' club pt. 12. Le voyage dans la lune disc 5: Bonus features 5 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) PN1995.9.A3 F76 2005

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Galileo. Galileo's "Dialogue". Kultur Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Story of the Italian astronomer and (2003) mathematician who dared to challenge the "It is said that the apple fell on accepted teachings of his day. Includes Newton's head, but it was Galileo who comment and interpretation by historians planted the tree. This program examines, Les Prince and Joel Roderick. The Dialogue--arguably the most Video Cassette (50 min.) controversial book of its time--and the QB36.G2 G317 2001 tumultuous events revolving around Galileo's visionary scientific achievements. Galileo: A Dialog on The insights of Harvard University's Owen Science, Mathematics, History and Gingerich, emeritus professor of the history Drama. of science; George Coyne, director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Vatican Observatory; and others, plus Institute (1999) dramatizations of scenes from the book and A dialogue between the Galileo's trial, capture the intellectual fervor mathematician Robert Osserman, G.V. of the Scientific Revolution and the Church's Coyne, S.J., Director of the Vatican struggle to discourage acceptance of Observatory, and Galileo performed by Copernican cosmology."--Container. Michael Winters in an excerpt from the Life 1 videodisc (ca. 53 min.) of Galileo, a new English version by QB41.G178 G34 2003 playwright David Hare of the play by Bertolt Brecht. A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our 1 Video Cassette (50 min.) Place in the Cosmic Puzzle. + 1 sheet ([3] p.) Films for the Humanities (1994) QB36.G2 G3173 1999 Scientific thinkers talk about their thoughts and their questions on man's place Galielo’s Battle For The Heavens. in the cosmic puzzle. Then they come WGBH Boston Video (2000) together to have a discussion. Dramatization of Galileo Galilei's life, 1. Oliver Sacks including his scientific achievements and his 2. Rupert Sheldrake defense of his controversial theory that the 3. Daniel C. Dennett earth revolves around the sun. Also 4. Stephen Toulmin discusses how letters from his illegitimate 5. Freeman Dyson daughter, Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, 6. Stephen J. Gould have shed new light on Galileo's discoveries 7. pt. 1 Clash of minds and his trial for heresy. 8. pt. 2 Clash of minds Video Cassette (114 min.) 8 Video Cassettes (90 min ea) QB36.G2 G64 2002 Q171 .G56

Heart of Antarctica: End of the Earth. TMW Media Group (1998) Journey to the South Pole, hunt for meteorites among ice fields, and learn why Antarctica can help us study outer space. Video Cassette (20 min.) G 860 E53

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How the Earth Works. Ionizing Radiation. Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2008 Teaching Films Inc. (198?) Course covers the making of our 1: Scientific Background (26 min.) planet from the Big Bang, to the formation of QC 475 S38 the solar system, to the subsequent 2: Units Used in Radiation Protection evolution of Earth. Travel to the center of our (53 min.) QC 795.42 U55 planet and out again, charting the geologic 3: Principle Types of Hazard forces that churn beneath our feet to push (73 min.) QC 475 P75 the continents and seafloor 4: Protection from the External 8 videodiscs 1440 min. & guide 277p Radiation Hazard (21 min.) QE28.3 .H69 2008 TK 9152 P76 5: Measuring External Hazard The Hubble Space Telescope. (61 min.) QC 786 M43 Astronomical Society of the Pacific 5 Video Cassettes (1990) Includes material about HST Journey to the Stars. deployment, the mirror problem, and the National Aeronautics and Space results. Administration, c2009 25 Slides "Featuring extraordinary images from Booklet (39 p.) telescopes on the ground and in space and QB 500.268 H55 stunning, never-before-seen visualizations of physics-based simulations, the dazzling In the Shadow of the Moon. new Journey to the Stars launches visitors Lionsgate, c2007 through space and time to experience the Presents the story of NASA's Apollo life and death of the stars in our night sky, program and the lunar landings by American including our own nurturing Sun. Tour astronauts made between 1968 and 1972. familiar stellar formations, explore new Features rare archival footage and celestial mysteries, and discover the interviews with surviving astronauts. fascinating, unfolding story that connects us 1 videodisc (110 min.) all to the stars. Those who come along for TL799.M6 I5 2007 the journey may never see the night sky in the same way again"--AMNH website. An Interview with David Bohm. 1 videodisc (25 min.) Mystic Fire Video (1994) QB806 .A44 2009 Bohm discusses his groundbreaking theory of wholeness and the implicate order, in which he proposes a new model of reality that is a revolutionary challenge to physics. Video Cassette (52 min.) QC 174.12 I57

Introduction to Strengthening Materials. Penn State (1975) Depicts four methods of strengthening materials using aluminum as an example. Video Cassette (6 min.) TA 409.3 I57

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The Joy of Science. The Joy of Science. (continued) Teaching Company, c2001 system ; Lecture thirty six The Earth as a English novelist and scientist C. P. planet. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with pt. 4. disc 7. Lecture thirty seven The the works of Shakespeare as things every dynamic earth ; Lecture thirty eight The educated person should know. The lectures plate-tectonics revolution ; Lecture thirty in this series explore the fundamental nine Earthquakes, volcanoes, & plate discoveries and principles of the physical motions today ; Lecture forty Earth cycles: and biological sciences--physics, genetics, Water ; Lecture forty one The atmospheric biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, cycle ; Lecture forty two The rock cycle -- thermodynamics, and more--providing a disc 8. Lecture lecture forty three What is comprehensive and integrated introduction life? ; Lecture forty four Strategies of life ; to all of science. The Joy of Science, Lecture forty five Life's molecular building through enhancing an understanding of the blocks ; Lecture forty six Proteins ; Lecture physical world, offers a source of endless forty seven Cells: The chemical factories of wonder and intellectual joy. life ; Lecture forty eight Gregor Mendel, pt. 1. disc 1. Lecture one The nature founder of genetics of science ; lecture two The scientific pt. 5. disc 9. Lecture forty nine The method ; Lecture three The ordered discovery of DNA ; Lecture fifty The genetic universe ; Lecture four Celestial and code ; Lecture fifty one Reading the genetic terrestrial mechanics ; Lecture five Newton's code ; Lecture fifty two Genetic engineering ; laws of motion ; Lecture six Universal Lecture fifty three Cancer and other genetic gravitation -- disc 2. Lecture seven The diseases ; Lecture fifty four The chemical nature of energy ; Lecture eight The first law evolution of life -- disc 10. Lecture fifty five of thermodynamics ; Lecture nine The Biological evolution: A unifying theme of second law of thermodynamics ; Lecture ten biology ; Lecture fifty six The fact of Entropy ; Lecture eleven Magnetism and evolution: the fossil record ; Lecture fifty static electricity ; Lecture twelve Electricity. seven Charles Darwin and the theory of pt. 2. disc 3. Lecture thirteen natural selection ; Lecture fifty eight Electromagnetism ; Lecture fourteen The Ecosystems and the law of unintended electromagnetic spectrum, pt. I ; Lecture consequences ; Lecture fifty nine The ozone fifteen The electromagnetic spectrum, pt. II ; hole, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect ; Lecture sixteen Relativity ; Lecture Lecture sixty Science: the endless frontier seventeen Atoms ; Lecture eighteen The 10 videodiscs (1800 min.) + 1 course Bohr atom -- disc 4. Lecture nineteen The guidebook 331pgs quantum world ; Lecture twenty The periodic Q171 .H39 2001 pt.1-5 table of the elements ; Lecture twenty one Introduction to chemistry ; Lecture twenty Life Beyond Earth. two The chemistry of carbon ; Lecture PBS Home Video : Warner Home Video twenty three States of matter and changes The story of the search for of state ; Lecture twenty four Phase extraterrestrial life is told in this two-part film transformations and chemical reactions. by Timothy Ferris who combines new pt. 3. disc 5. Lecture twenty five discoveries about the origins of life with Properties of materials ; Lecture twenty six recent revelations about the nature of the Semiconductors and modern sun's planets to seek possible answers. microelectronics ; Lecture twenty seven Part 1- investigates the origins of life on Isotopes and radioactivity ; Lecture twenty earth and traces the search for life on other eight Nuclear fission and fusion reactions ; worlds. (1 hr.) Lecture twenty nine Astronomy ; Lecture Part 2- examines the strategies being thirty The life cycle of stars -- disc 6. Lecture employed to communicate with fellow thirty one Edwin Hubble and the discovery of travelers among the stars. (1 hr.) galaxies ; Lecture thirty two The big bang ; Video Cassette Lecture thirty three The ultimate structure of QB54 .L47 1999 matter ; Lecture thirty four The nebular hypothesis ; Lecture thirty five The solar

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Life Time. Looking Back to the Future: Raymond Films for the Humanities & Sciences Loewy. (2007) PBS (1988) Like other living things, humans are His creations include the locomotive, programmed to die. This film examines the company logos, cars, boats, pencil body's biological mechanisms which sharpeners, refrigerators, sewing machines, eventually slow down and stop. Host Michio the interior of Air Force One, Skylab space Kaku looks at how medicine may one day station, and the Concorde. reverse the effects of time on the human Highlights his life, work, and philosophical body. views. 1 videodisc (50 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) QH528.5 .L54 2007 TS 140 L63 L66

Light of the 21st Century. The Majestic Clockwork BBC-TV (1979) Time-Life Video/Ambrose Video (1988?) Lasers have grown into a billion dollar Focuses on the contributions of business, with significant impact on Newton and Einstein in the evolution of medicine, dentistry, construction, physics by exploring the revolution that communication and other areas of human ensued when Einstein's theory of relativity concern. A giant laser in a lab in Calif. has upset Newton's description of the universe. achieved temperatures of the center of the Video Cassette (52 min.) sun, a step towards harnessing nuclear QC7 .M33 fusion. In the field of communications engineers predict laser telephone traffic can The Mauna Kea: On the Verge of Other be increased a million-fold. Worlds. Video Cassette (1 hr.) PBS (1989) TK 7871.3 L53 Reveals the exciting developments in astronomy at Mauna Kea. Highlights recent Lightning! discoveries and special projects at the NOVA (1995) observatory including a study of light from Takes you on a high voltage trip into the farthest reaches of the universe. the most electrically charged weather in the Video Cassette (1 hr.) world. Visits some of lightning’s tragic QB 82 U62 M38 victims. Video Cassette (1 hr.) QC 966 L533

L-5 Promoting Space Development. L5 Society (198?) STS-l, STS-3, STS-6 post-flight press conferences (16 min. ea.); Introduction to the L-5 Society (40 min.); L-5 Society public service announcement (30 sec.); NASA Aeronautics and space reports on space colonization (5 min.) and space solar power (5 min.); Zero gravity gymnastics (7 min.); Jupiter and Saturn rotation films (14 min.) Video Cassette (2 hr.) TL 787 L38

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The Mechanical Universe. The Mechanical Universe and Beyond. The Annenberg/CPB Project (1985) Annenberg/CPB Collection (1988) 1. Introduction to The Mechanical 27. Beyond the Mechanical Universe Universe 28. Static Electricity 2. The Law of Falling Bodies 29. The Electric Field 3. Derivatives 30. Potential and Capacitance 4. Inertia 31. Voltage, Energy, & Force 5. Vectors 32. The Electric Battery 6. Newton's Laws 33. Electric Circuits 7. Integration 34. Magnetism 8. The Apple and the Moon 35. The Magnetic Field 9. Moving in Circles 36. Vector Fields & Hydrodynamics 10. The Fundamental Forces 37. Electromagnetic Induction 11. Gravity - Electricity - Magnetism 38. Alternating Current 12. The Millikan Experiment 39. Maxwell's Equations 13. Conservation of Energy 40. Optics 14. Potential Energy 41. The Michelson-Morley Experiment 15. Conservation of Momentum 42. The Lorentz Transformation 16. Harmonic Motion 43. Velocity & Time 17. Resonance 44. Mass, Momentum, Energy 18. Waves 45. Temperature & Gas Laws 19. Angular Momentum 46. Engine of Nature 20. Torques & Gyroscopes 47. Entropy 21. Kepler's Three Laws 48. Low Temperatures 22. The Kepler Problem 49. The Atom 23. Energy and Eccentricity 50. Particles and Waves 24. Navigation in Space 51. From Atoms to Quarks 25. From Kepler to Einstein 52. The Quantum Mechanical Universe 26. Harmony of the Spheres 13 Video Cassettes (2 programs per 10 Video Cassettes (30 min. per tape, 30 min. per program) program) QC 127.3 M42 QC 127.3 M42 Meteorites. ORF (1993) Filled with computer graphics, pictures from Voyager II, and footage of ancient meteor craters and specimens from around the world. Tells a story of science, legend, myth, and wonder. Vol. 1: Menace from the Sky. Vol. 2: Witnesses from Beyond the Times. 2 Video Cassettes (1 hr. 24 min.) QB 755 M483 pt. 1-2

Modern Marvels: The Space Shuttle. A&E Television Networks (2004) The development of the Shuttle began in the 1950's and was triumphantly launched in 1981. This program examines the successes and failures of the missions and looks at the next generation Space Shuttle, the futuristic X-33. 1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) TL795.5 .M63 2004

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Monsters of the Deep. El Nino: Disaster on the Wind. MPI Home Video (1996) Films for the Humanities (19980 Visits the Florida residents who Meteorologists provide in-depth, survived 1992's hurricane Andrew, the scientific explanations for El Nino, while United States' costliest natural disaster; tracing its damaging effects and positive examines the causes of hurricanes; and legacy. Also examines new technologies in delves into the phenomenon known as "El weather satellites and sophisticated Niño," a current in the Pacific Ocean with underwater probes. far-reaching effects on weather. Video Cassette (35 min.) Video Cassette (57 min) GC 296.8 E4 U53 QC944 .M65 Nobel lectures. Physics, 1901-1995 The Moon Kit. World Scientific (1999) Astronomical Society of the Pacific DVD (1990) QC71 .N63 1999 An introduction to the moon. 18 Slides Optics. Booklet (23 p.) PBS (1990) QB 581 M67 Takes the viewer inside Bell Laboratories, Lasermedia and the University Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs. of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center to Devine Entertainment (1999) meet astronomer Dr. Roger Angel. A dramatization of the life of physicist Video Cassette (15 min.) Sir Isaac Newton as told by a young boy QA 10.5 F882 named after him. Thus the tale of the two Isaacs is interwoven throughout the story. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Video Cassette (52 min.) Cosmic Evolution. QC16.N7 N46 1999 WGBH Boston Video (2004) "Who would have predicted that a hot Newton's Dark Secrets. spot left over from the Big Bang would WGBH Boston Video (2005) eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar Newly discovered manuscripts reveal system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins an Isaac Newton obsessed with religion, the explores how the universe and our planet occult, and alchemy. began amid chaos and eventually gave birth 1 videodisc (56 min.) to the first stirrings of life"—Container. QC16.N7 N478 2005 disc 1 -- Earth is born -- How life began [Newton] Sir Isaac Newton: The Gravity disc 2 -- Where are the of Genius. aliens? -- Back to the beginning A&E Home Video; New Video Group 2 videodiscs (ca. 240 min.) Explores the life of Sir Isaac Newton, QB981 .O74 2004 who invented calculus, investigated motion, gravity, and light, and who was the father of Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang. modern science. Includes an examination of Distributed by the Cinema Guild (2005) his writings and interviews with scholars and Reporter Paul Jacobs investigated the scientists. health effects of exposure to low-level Video Cassette (50 min.) radiation on soldiers and civilians who QC16.N7 S57 1996 participated in atomic bomb tests in the Nevada desert. 1 videodisc (68 min.) PN4874.J33 P28 2005

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Physics of Spaceflight. Physics Curriculum & Instruction (1991) The Quantum Universe. 1. Acceleration Machines. Illustration PBS (1990) of some of the principles governing the Explores the world of quantum launching of a spacecraft. (32 min.) physics as seen through the eyes of TL 790 A22 scientists and artists. Visits the high-energy 2. Orbital Motion and Re-entry. particle physics facility at the Harvard- Illustration of some of the dynamics of orbital Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and motion and of the atmospheric re-entry of discusses the horizons of modern quantum space vehicles. (30 min.) theory. TL 790 P48 Video Cassette (1 hr.) 3. Gravity: A Broadened View. QC 174.12 S64 Illustration of the principle of gravity as it applies to space flight. (30 min.) Race for the Superbomb. TL 790 G73 WGBH-TV 3 Video Cassettes Discusses the development of the hydrogen bomb and the possibility of Planet Earth. nuclear warfare. Annenberg/CPB Collection (1986) Video Cassette (1 hr. 55min. 1. The Living Machine UG1282.A8 R33 1999 QE 511.4 P47 2. The Blue Planet GC 21.5 P53 The Race To the Moon. 3. The Climate Puzzle QB 631 P53 A&E Television Networks (2004) 4. Tales from Other Worlds Join the History Channel for the QB 501 P53 ultimate 35th birthday celebration of one of 5. Gifts from the Earth the most extraordinary events of the 20th QE 511.4 P472 century, in this incomparable collector's 6. The Solar Sea QB 631 P532 commemoration of the moonwalk and the 7. Fate of the Earth QB 631 P533 early days of the space race. See summaries in the Science section. v. 1. Failure is not an option. 7 Video Cassettes (1 hr. ea.) v. 2. Code name Project Orion ; Modern marvels : Apollo 13 ; Modern Planets. marvels : the space shuttle. DK Vision : BBC Worldwide Americas 2 videodiscs (232 min.) Journey through space and time, TL799.M6 R33 2004 1-2 witnessing the birth of the sun and traveling to the outer limits of the solar system. The Radicals. Video Cassette (35 min.) Vision Video QB601.9 .P54 1997 The story of the beginnings of the Anabaptist movement in 16th century The Prevailing Westerlies, the Horse Europe. Neither Catholic nor Protestant, Latitudes, and the Doldrums: Global Air radical reformers refused ties to the state Circulation. and offered the world a new vision. Blue Sky Asso. (1992) Video Cassette (1 hr. 39 min.) Explains world air circulation patterns. PN 1995.9 R4 R33 Video Cassette (1 hr.) QC 880.4 A8 P74 The Rainbow. Films for the Humanities (1997) Putting Man in Space. Uses mathematical modeling to PBS (1990) explain how light produces color in Takes viewers through Johnson rainbows. Space Center in Houston to demonstrate Video Cassette (25 min.) how much math is fundamental to our ability QC 976 R2 R33 to operate in outer space. Video Cassette (15 min.) QA 10.5 F882 pt. 6

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The Really Big World of Astronomy. The Rocky Road to Jupiter. Cerebellum Corporation (1997) Coronet Film & Video (198?) Nova Series: Standard Deviants Video Course Takes a behind-the-scenes look at Review. Video study aid for college the people who build spacecraft and design astronomy courses. missions. The pre-Challenger successes of 2 Video Cassettes (2 hrs 50 min) the U.S. planetary space program are QB 44 R42 pt 1-2 examined along with the role the shuttle has played in shaping U.S. space policy. Richard Rodriguez & Sir John Houghton. Video Cassette (58 min.) Films for the Humanities & Sciences Guide (2 p.) (2006) QB 661 R63 Richard Rodriguez speaks about spirituality, mortality, and growing up in a Roller Coaster! Catholic family and community that were WGBH Foundation (1993) often at odds with Protestant-dominated Explores the design and construction America. Sir John Houghton speaks as a of roller coasters and how physics principles scientist and evangelical Christian. He apply to roller coasters. explains his belief that science and religion Video Cassette (56 min.) can both work towards improving the human GV 1860 R64 R64 condition. 1 videodisc (57 min.) Runaway Universe. F870.M5 R53 2006 WGBH Boston Video (2000) Discusses the mysterious force that is Ring of Truth. pushing the universe apart. Also discusses PBS (1987) the size of the universe and what a Shows how science knows what it supernova looks like. knows, moving from the time of Galileo to Video Cassette (1 hr) the modern era of quantum mechanics and QB991.E94 R85 2000 astrophysics. Philip Morrison stresses the actual hands-on experiences of gathering Sail On, Voyager. and evaluating scientific evidence and Vestron Video (1992) invites viewers to participate actively. Shares some of the photographs and 1. Looking 2. Change findings brought back by the two Voyager 3. Mapping 4. Clues spacecrafts as they traveled over four billion 5. Atoms 6. Doubt miles in space. 6 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each) Video Cassette (58 min.) Q 175 R46 pt. 1-6 TL 789.8 U6 V687

Rock 'n Roll Physics. The Satellite Sky. Public Media Education (1995) PBS (1990) Two high school physics teachers Provides a history of the space challenge students to figure out the physics exploration era by assembling layer upon of amusement park rides. layer of archival materials including Video Cassette (30 min.) kinescopes, American films, Russian QC 6 R56 science fiction movies, Russian commercials, and U.S. and Soviet news footage. Video Cassette (1 hr.) TL 788.5 S28

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Savage Skies. Solar Blast. MPI Home Video (1996) National Geographic Television in Explores the power and beauty of the cooperation with PBS world's most severe weather. Solar blast refers to the sun's sphere Fire and Rain explores the deceptive of superheated gas powered by nuclear disguises worn by rain and the effects it has fusion and erupting into storms. We need to on people around the globe. (55 min.) understand and predict this phenomenon QC 925 F57 because of potential disruptions on earth. Riders in the Storm follows some of the High altitude ice cores are one means of individuals who hunt for twisters and storms, studying the history of earth's climate and attempting to predict their behavior. (59 environment. Chemistry of this ice reveals a min.) QC 955 R53 connection between eleven year sun cycles Monsters of the Deep visits with and earth climate. At present solar survivors of Hurricane Andrew and researchers can give only an hour warning examines the ocean effects that create before a solar blast strikes earth. hurricanes. Delves into the phenomenon Video Cassette (57 min.) known as "El Nino". (57 min.) QC 944 M65 QC883.2.S6 S58 2000 The Winter's Tale takes viewers to winter locations and demonstrates the Sputnik Declassified. manner in which humans have adapted their WGBH Boston Video, c2008 lifestyles to the vigorous demands of winter. On October 4, 1957, the space age Looks at history's biggest blizzards. (58 dawned with the red hue of the Communist min.) QC 926.32 W55 flag when the Soviet Union launched the first 4 Video Cassettes artificial satellite. Sputnik stunned the world and spurred the U.S. into massive spending Science in focus: energy. on science education and innovation. Fierce Annenberg/CP (2002) political and personal rivalries collided over Workshop for science teachers on how and when the U.S. should enter space. understanding the concept of energy President Eisenhower wanted a satellite to including distinguishing between the spy on the Russians but feared their meaning of energy to the man on the street response to an overtly military program. and its meaning to scientists, and energy's That led him to sideline the plans of role in motion, machines, food, the human Wernher von Braun, the leader of the U.S. body, and the universe as a whole. Also Army's pioneering rocket team. discusses how energy can be converted 1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) from one form to another and transferred TL796.5.R8 S68 2008 across time and space and the conservation of energy Stationed in the Stars. 8 Video Cassette (ca. 480 min.) BBC Worldwide Americas (2000) 1 guide (32 p.) Even as astronauts from around the QC73.6 .S35 2002 no.1 – 8\ world work on constructing the International Space Station, the future of the project is in doubt. Russia has failed to deliver a crucial piece, stalling construction. Russia has plans to turn its Mir space station into a vacation spot and commercial lab, which may impact its participation in the building of the International Space Station. Video Cassette (1 hr.) TL797 .S73 2000

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Super Bridge. To Engineer is Human. WGBH Boston Video (1997) Films Inc. (1990) Follows the four-year construction of Shows how engineering science is the Clark Bridge, spanning the Mississippi subject to human limitations. Using graphic River at Alton, Illinois. It is a rare example of footage of some of the world's major civil what is known as cable-stayed design, an failures, illustrates some of the greatest innovative variation on the suspension disasters in history. bridge. Video Cassette (50 min.) Video Cassette (2 hrs) TA 174 T62 TG405 .S86 1997 To the Moon. Synchronicity and the Holographic WGBH Video, c2000 Universe. Presents the story behind the Apollo Thinking Allowed Prod. (1992) space program, including the historic walk In part one Michael Talbot discusses on the moon in 1969. the holographic model of brain functioning DVD (2 hrs) and the "implicate order" model of quantum TL789.8.U6 A5277 2000 physics. He proposes that these two models combine to explain many unsolved Today's Physicist: The Fire that Burns mysteries in brain functioning and quantum Within. physics. In part two, Talbot discusses his Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1997) own unusual experiences with poltergeist Features ten physicists who possess phenomena and UFOs. Suggests that the a variety of degrees and work for industrial, holographic model provides a means for academic, and government employers. understanding these experiences. Mechanical engineers talk about careers for Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) mechanical engineers, including what types QC 449 S98 of work mechanical engineers perform in business and industry, the challenges and Taking Off. opportunities in mechanical engineering and We Do The Work (1996) opportunities outside of engineering for Deregulation of the airline industry other jobs. has led to cost-cutting of airplane parts and Video Cassette (50 min.) repair and maintenance of smaller airlines QC29 .T63 mostly, however, bogus airplane parts have been sold to major airlines as well. The FAA Tornado! has compromised the safety of many airlines WGBH (1985) by changing the rules (FAR 145) and Follows a chase team of scientists as permitting airplanes to be repaired outside they pursue nature's most destructive and the United States in third world countries elusive weather phenomenon. where the mechanics are not subject to the Video Cassette (60 min) same licensing regulations as their QC955 .T66 American counterparts, and FAA inspections are fewer and farther between at "offshore" Tornado Video Classics. facilities. Tornado Project (19) Video Cassette (30 min.) Descriptions of major tornadoes in the HE9763 .T33 1996 U.S. Information on tornado forecasting, formation, life cycles, and multiples vortices. Terror in Space. Video Cassette (2 hr.) WGBH Educational Foundation (1998) Guide (48 p.) Exposes the dangers and near QC 955.5 U6 T67 tape 1 disasters aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1997. Includes interviews with U.S. astronauts Jerry Linenger and Michael Foale. Video Cassette (1 hr.) TL797 .T47 1998

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Tornado Video Classics II: The Understanding : Time. Magnificent Puzzle. Discovery Channel Education (2001) Tornado Project (1992) Teaches the history of time and the Depicts the puzzling climatology of math and science of it. Also discusses time tornadoes ... the where, when, and how travel and Einstein's theory of relativity. often of tornadoes. Enhances the 1 Video Cassette (ca. 27 min.) understanding of the immediate and long QB209 .U53 2001 term risks from tornadoes. Video Cassette Units Used in Radiation Protection. Guide (8 p.) Teaching Films (1984) QC 955.5 U6 T67 tape 2 Describes how to measure radiation activity, energy, exposure and dose and Transportation Advances. 1 explains the properties of radiation. Chip Taylor Communications (2001) Video Cassette (20 min.) Presents advances in transportation QC795.42 .U55 such as a portable airplane that carries two people and fits in a standard garage, a moving map display for pilots based on the Global Positioning System, a jet that is the smallest 4-seater aircraft in the world, a model aircraft that requires no experience to control it, and advances in fire-resistant materials to be used in planes, trains, and cars. Video Cassette (24 min.) TL545 .T73 2001

Turning Points in the Physical Sciences. Ambrose Video Pub. (2005) A journey of discovery from ancient through classical science to the world of modern physics, relativity, chaos theory and quantum mechanics. See online catalog for contents. 5 videodiscs (135 min.) Q158.5 .T87 2005 1-5

21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777. PBS Video (1996) Covers the pioneering computer design methods used for the 777. Follows the group that designs and tests the plane. To Design a Plane The Sum of Its Parts A Plane Takes Shape Taking Flight Countdown to Delivery. 5 Video Cassettes (5 hr.) TL 686 B65 A22 pt. 1-5

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The Universe. The Complete Season One. Volcano! A&E Television Networks (2007) Coronet (1989) Part 1: Tour the surface of Earth's life- Focuses on the microgravity giving star. Mars may be the future of techniques used to predict volcanic humanity - uses data collected from probes eruptions. The field methods of Professor and robotic rovers. Scars on the planet's Brown and Dr. Hazel Rymer in Costa Rica & surface and in its fossil record illustrate the Ireland and interpretations of the data threat posed by meteorites, comets, and collected in their studies are presented. asteroids that routinely collide with Earth. Video Cassette (58 min.) Two and a half times the size of all the other Guide planets in the solar system combined, and QE 527.5 V64 half a billion miles from Earth, Jupiter is a colossal riddle Volcanoes of the Deep. Part 2: Our closest celestial neighbor, WGBH Boston Video (1999) the moon is the only cosmic body on which Discusses how sea life thrives on the human beings have ever set foot. Learn how ocean floor on superheated volcanic the place we call home formed in one of the chimneys and shows a mission to use a most volatile regions of the Milky Way. submersible to bring volcanic chimneys to Circling around the Sun in speedy orbits, the surface. Mercury and Venus are rocky, dense, and Video Cassette (1 hr. ) intensely hot. GC87.6.V64 V64 1999 Part 3: Famous for its striking ring formations, Saturn is perhaps the most Weather Extreme. Tornado. beautiful planet in the solar system. The Artisan Home Entertainment (2001) Milky Way is only one of the over 100 billion Discusses the potential impact of galaxies thought to exist, and each is really bad tornados on crowded metropolitan composed of as many as a trillion stars. The areas. Includes footage from past disastrous birth of a star is a spectacular events, as storms, eyewitness accounts, and computer gravity brings together massive molecular animation clouds over millions of years to create these 1 Video Cassette (55 min.) enormous galactic furnaces. The QC955 .W42 2001 gargantuan planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune circle the edge of the Solar When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions. System. Discovery Communications, [2008] Part 4: Gazing up from Earth, the Chronicles NASA's history, including Universe looks like a peaceful place where the Mercury program, moon landings, and placid stars pass across the night sky. Could the first untethered space walk. there be other intelligent life outside our 3 videodiscs (ca. 258 min.) solar system, with the space suggests that TL789.8.U5 W44 2008 the conditions for the life may not be unique to Earth. Over 13 billion years ago, from a World Within World. point smaller than the size of a single atom Ambrose Video (1974/ 1988) the universe was born, and it continues to Looks at the internal structure of the expand with every passing second. atom and traces the history of 20th-century 4 videodiscs (ca. 705 min.) physics. QB981 .U555 2007 1-4 Video Cassette (52 min.) QC7 .W67 Venus Unveiled. WGBH (1995) Venus reveals its true face to the spacecraft Magellan, turning out to be one of the most bizarre places in the solar system. Video Cassette (1 hr.) QB 621 V55

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Worlds in Comparison. Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1988) Describes the size relationships in the solar system. Compares planets, satellites, and some of their most prominent geographical features. 20 Slides Booklet (19 p.) QB 501.2 M47

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