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The Mechanical Universe
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The Mechanical Universe... And Beyond, is a 52-part telecourse filmed at the California Institute of Technology, funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project, and produced by Caltech and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications (a non-profit consortium of California community colleges). The series introduces university level physics, covering topics from Copernicus to quantum mechanics. The series, produced in 1985 by Caltech and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications, uses historical dramatizations and visual aides to explain physics concepts. The latter were state of the art at the time of production: almost 8 hours of computer animation were done by computer graphics pioneer Jim Blinn. Each episode opens and closes with a "phantom" lecture by Caltech professor David Goodstein. Though more than 20 years old, the series is often used as a supplemental aide for its clear explanation of phenomena such as special relativity even today.[1]
- ^ Stephen R. Ellis, Mary K. Kaiser, Arthur C. Grunwald (1991), Pictorial Communication in Virtual and Real Environments , Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0748400087
- The Mechanical Universe website at INTELECOM
- The Mechanical Universe website at Caltech
- Entry on IMDB
- Stream the entire series here.
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