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Light Beam

by Jonathan Hare
Light Beam
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1944 views
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Light is reflected off a flexible shiny surface fixed to the end of a plastic tube. When one speaks into the tubes sound vibrations pass down the tube and make the surface vibrate. The reflected light is therefore sent off from the surface in a con....

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Temperature and States of Matter

by John Murrell
Temperature and States of Matter
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 9779 views
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A short video explaining how to measure temperature.

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Measuring Temperature

by John Murrell
Measuring Temperature
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1623 views
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Temperature Scales

by John Murrell
Temperature Scales
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1521 views
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John Murrell explains scales and colour changes with temperature, boiling and melting,

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Volume Changes with Temperature

by John Murrell
Volume Changes with Temperature
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1338 views
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Some Materials Do Not Have Liquid Form

by John Murrell
Some Materials Do Not Have Liquid Form
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1394 views
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Dry Ice and Wet Ice

by John Murrell
Dry Ice and Wet Ice
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 3482 views
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Why Does Ice Float?

by John Murrell
Why Does Ice Float?
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 5073 views
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What is Matter? Solids, Liquids and Gases

by John Murrell
What is Matter? Solids, Liquids and Gases
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 10964 views
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Flexibility, Elasticity, Heat Conduction

by John Murrell
Flexibility, Elasticity, Heat Conduction
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2295 views
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Heat Conduction

by John Murrell
Heat Conduction
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 4233 views
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Electrical Conduction

by John Murrell
Electrical Conduction
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1880 views
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Hardness

by John Murrell
Hardness
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2175 views
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Piezoelectricity

by Jonathan Hare
Piezoelectricity
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1941 views
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Some minerals such as quartz can produce electricity simply by squeezing or bending them - these are called piezoelectric crystals. Here is a simple and cheap demonstration you can do.

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The Geiger Counter

by Jonathan Hare
The Geiger Counter
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1763 views
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Although essentially a very simple device the Gieger Counter is an exquisitely sensitive detector of ionising radiation. It can detect a single particle. Here we demonstrate its use in detecting radiation from minerals and describe in simple terms ho....

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The Quest for The Higgs Particle

by Martinus Veltman
The Quest for The Higgs Particle
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1283 views
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A Breathtaking Journey into the Innermost Structure of our Universe.  Runner up: Best use of Animation and Best Short Documentary for the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology.

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The Mystery of the Missing Mass

by Tara Shears
The Mystery of the Missing Mass
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1471 views
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Dr Tara Shears explains why scientists are convinced that Dark Matter exists and how a new experiment called the Large Hadron Collider might finally tell us exactly what this mysterious missing mass is made of.

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The Matter with AntiMatter

by Tara Shears
The Matter with AntiMatter
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1580 views
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If equal amounts of matter and anitmatter were created at the birth of the universe then why does our universe seem to be made almost entirely from matter? Dr Tara Shears tells us how this mystery could be explained by the Large Hadron Collider exper....

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Big Bang – a tour of the Large Hadron Collider

by Brian Cox
Big Bang – a tour of the Large Hadron Collider
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1671 views
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Dr Brian Cox takes us on a tour of the Large Hadron Collider where the conditions moments after the Big Bang are to be recreated.

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Sizing Things Up

by Tara Shears
Sizing Things Up
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1550 views
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Dr Tara Shears explains that one of Science's greatest achievements is to have accurately measured everything from the width of the universe to the diameter of a quark. This film features an animated zoom in from the universe to the heart of a hydrog....

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The Building Blocks of Matter

by Brian Cox
The Building Blocks of Matter
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1366 views
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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the biggest science experiment ever built. Scientists from all over the world are heading to CERN with the aim of recreating particles from the beginning of the universe. Dr Brian Cox takes us on a scientific jour....

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Nuclear Power Plant Safety – What’s the Problem?

by John Collier
Nuclear Power Plant Safety – What’s the Problem?
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1699 views
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A significant proportion of our electricity is generated by thermonuclear reactions. The dangers attached to these processes and the radioactive products are well known and publicised. Much less well known are the measures taken to ensure that the hi....

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How X-rays cracked the structure of DNA

by Amand Lucas
How X-rays cracked the structure of DNA
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1555 views
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An elegantly simple optical diffraction demonstration with an inexpensive laser pointer is used to show the way in which x-rays can reveal the structure of crystals, and in particular, the double helix structure of DNA.

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Life in Space

by Helen Sharman
Life in Space
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Discussions | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1598 views
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Helen Sharman, the UK's first astronaut, gives a vibrant account of her personal experience of life in space using models and film to illustrate the key scientific concepts involved in spaceflight. Among other things she discusses the way Newton's Th....

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