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The mechanical universe ... and beyond. Disc 1, [episodes 27-30]
Peter F. Buffa (Producer), Sally Beaty (Producer), David L. Goodstein (Host, Creator), California Institute of Technology (Producer), Southern California Consortium for Community College Television (Producer), Annenberg/CPB (Funder), Distribution Access (Firm) (Distributor)
Episode 27 looks at electricity, magnetism, and the twentieth century discoveries of relativity and quantum mechanics. Episode 28 looks at Coulomb's law and the principles of static electricity. Episode 29 deals with Michael Faraday's contribution to the modern idea of the field of force. Also covers electric fields of static charges, Gauss's law, and the conservation of flux. Episode 30 discusses Benjamin Franklin's theory of the Leyden jar and his invention of the parallel plate capacitor. Also covers electrical potential, the potential of charged conductors, equipotentials, and capacitance. Uses computer animation sequences, historical reenactments, and close-up photography of experiments
DVD Video, English, 1986
California Institute of Technology, Corporation for Community College Television, [Pasadena, Calif.], 1986