MOVIE LIST

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  1. a list of demos most often used by physics faculty teaching introductory courses
  2. A typical selection of demos and movies for Physics 5, Physics 8, Physics 9, Physics 21, Physics 101, Physics 102, Physics 150, Physics 151, Physics 230.

After reviewing the movielist, you may order an item for your lecture from the Lecture Demonstration Lab by e-mail, making a phone call (8-8192), or going directly to the lab.

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  1. General Physics
  2. Classical Mechanics
  3. Waves
  4. Light, Optics, and Electromagnetism
  5. Relativity
  6. Quantum Mechanics
  7. Solid State Physics
  8. Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, Fluid Phenomena
  9. Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

General Physics

  1. Change of Scale - 23 minutes
  2. A million to one - 5 minutes
  3. Apollo II Flight - 26 minutes
  4. Powers of Ten -10 minutes.
  5. You Can't Go Back - 6 minutes
  6. Tacoma Narrows Bridge (10 minutes)
  7. The Law of Gravitation, an Example of Physical Law
  8. The Relationship of Mathematics to Physics
  9. The Great Conservation Principles
  10. Symmetry in Physical Law
  11. The Distinction of Past and Future
  12. Probability and Uncertainty--The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature
  13. Seeking New Laws

Classical Mechanics

  1. Frames of Reference - 26 minutes
  2. Angular Momentum, a Vector Quantity - 27 minutes
  3. Uniform Circular Motion - 8 minutes
  4. Simple Harmonic Motion - 10 minutes
  5. Conservation Laws at Zero G
  6. Toys in Space (60 minutes)
  7. Dr. Brody's NFL (10 minutes)
  8. Pole Vault Video (5 minutes)
  9. The Games Astronauts Play
  10. Reference Frames
  11. Moving Astronauts
  12. Human Mass Measurement
  13. Acrobatic Astronauts
  14. Human Momenta
  15. Gyroscopes
  16. Collisions
  17. Oscillations
  18. 80-3155 Collisions in two dimensions 2 min. 35 sec.
  19. 80-3833 Conservation of energy pole vault3 min. 55 sec.
  20. Mass and Weight in Orbit
  21. Conservation of Angular Momentum
  22. The Dynamics of a Suspension Bridge

Waves

  1. Doppler Effect - 8 minutes
  2. Stationary Longitudinal Waves - 9 minutes
  3. Stationary Transverse Waves - 9 minutes
  4. Tacoma Narrows Bridge (10 minutes)
  5. Reflection of circular waves from various barriers in a ripple tank
  6. Reflections of waves from concave barriers in a ripple tank
  7. Interference of waves in a ripple tank
  8. Multiple slit diffraction of waves in a ripple tank
  9. 1- Circular wave reflection from various barriers3 min. 45 sec.
  10. 2- Refraction of waves 2 min. 45 sec.
  11. 80-235 Barrier penetration by waves 2 min. 15 sec.
  12. 80-241 Effect of phase differences between sources 2 min. 30 sec.
  13. 80-242, 80-2421 Single slit diffraction 3 min. 30 sec.
  14. 80-244 Diffraction and scattering around objects 3 min. 10 sec.
  15. 80-2017 Scintillation Spectrometry 3 min. 35 sec.
  16. 80-2090 Michelson Interferometer 4 min. 45 sec.
  17. 80-2173 Non-recurrent wavefronts 3 min. 55 sec.
  18. 80-2363, 80-2397 Bragg reflection of waves 4 min.
  19. 80-2330 Reflection of waves from concave barriers 4 min.
  20. 80-2355 Barrier penetration by waves 2 min. 15 sec.
  21. 80-2371 Doppler effect 3 min. 45 sec.
  22. 80-2389 Formation of shock waves 3 min. 45 sec.
  23. 80-2405 Interference of waves 4 min.
  24. 80-2439 Multiple slit diffraction 3 min. 25 sec.
  25. Group Velocity

Light, Optics, and Electromagnetism

  1. Pressure of Light - 23 minutes
  2. Measurement of the Speed of Light - 7 minutes
  3. Lenz's Law
  4. Hysteresis
  5. Image Methods in Electrostatics

Relativity

  1. The Ultimate Speed: An Exploration with High Energy Electrons
  2. Time Dilation: An Experiment with mu-Mesons - 36 minutes
  3. Positron-Electron Annihilation - 26 minutes
  4. Einstein's Theory of Relativity (Animation)
  5. The Speed of Projectiles, Sound and Light
  6. Simultaneity Is Relative
  7. Length Contraction
  8. Time Dilation
  9. The Doppler Effect and the Twin Paradox
  10. World Lines
  11. Coordinate Transformations

Quantum Mechanics

  1. Matter Waves - 28 minutes
  2. The Size of Atoms from an Atomic Beam Experiment - 28 minutes
  3. Vibration of Molecules - 12 minutes
  4. Franck-Hertz Experiment - 30 minutes
  5. Momentum of Electrons - 10 minutes
  6. Probability and Uncertainty--The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature
  7. 80-3965 Rutherford scattering 3 min. 50 sec.
  8. 80-4005 Scattering in one dimension part 1: barriers 3 min.
  9. 80-4013 Scattering in one dimension part 2: square wells 2 min. 40 sec.
  10. 80-4021 Scattering in one dimension part 3: edge effects 4 min.
  11. 1- Scattering in one dimension part 4: momentum space 4 min.
  12. 80-4047 Free wave packets 2 min. 40 sec.
  13. 80-4054 Particle in a box 2 min. 40 sec.

Solid State Physics

  1. Crystals and Their Structures - 22 minutes
  2. Brattain on Semiconductor Physics - 30 minutes
  3. 84-0115 Bubble model of a crystal: structure and boundaries 2 min. 5 sec.
  4. 84-0124 Bubble model of a crystal: deformation and dislocations3 min.

Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, Fluid Phenomena

  1. Liquid Drops
  2. Water Bridges
  3. Soap and Water

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

  1. Heating, Cooling, and Charles' Law
  2. Temperature, Energy, and Thermal Equilibrium
  3. Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
Copyright 2000 by the University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced without written consent of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Last modified by Paul A. Heiney,
heiney@dept.physics.upenn.edu
, March, 2000