Summary: This investigation uses a candle placed between two mirrors; a laser and smoke lens; a water tank; a right-angle prism; a fiber-optic bundle; four planar mirrors; a convex lens; a coffee cup, a coin, and chopsticks; and a paraboloid mirror and a 3-D mouse to explore the following concepts: mirrors and image formation; convex and concave mirrors; straight line propagation and reflection of...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: By featuring a water rocket; a syringe and a toy pig; balloons; a drum; a fountain made of a flask and tubes; oil and beer cans lowered into the depths of the ocean; and an expedition that transports a glass tube filled with mercury up Mt. Fuji to 12,388 feet above sea level, this program helps to illustrate the following content: air pressure; equal force; vacuum; atmospheric pressure;...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Using a bar magnet and compass; a neodymium magnet, soft iron, and a dumbbell; a ferrite magnet crushed into small pieces; a magnetized and broken knife blade; nails and a plastic plate with layers of aluminum, copper, and iron in-between; an iron bar, enamel wire, and a battery; and an ebonite bar, a wool cloth, and a leaf electroscope, this program investigates the following concepts:...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Using a bow-drill and flint stones; a glass tube filled with cotton and a piston; crushed pieces of dry ice in a vinyl pipe; liquid nitrogen and a butane lighter, a rose, a ball, and mercury; a bi-metallic strip of brass and aluminum; and a wooden stick and copper, iron, and glass rods, the following concepts are demonstrated: changing the energy of movement to heat energy; using compressed air...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: A guitar; Kundt's apparatus; a tuning fork and a column of air inside a tube; a resonating fish pot; a cymbal-playing toy monkey in a vacuum jar; a Slinky; an oscilloscope; the rim of a wine glass; and a fish-finder are just some of the items used to demonstrate the following concepts: sound and vibration; resonance; standing waves; amplitude; traverse, longitudinal, planar, and circular waves;...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: This program uses a solar-powered toy car; magnets, coils of enamel wire, a small bulb, and a propeller; copper wire; a galvanometer; a screen coil and a swing coil; aluminum rods and two dry cell batteries; liquid nitrogen, a superconductor, and a neodymium magnet; and a montage of different power plants to demonstrate the following concepts: dynamos; electromagnetic induction; how generators...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Using a frog in free fall; a laser; a fixed pulley, spring balance, and scale; balancing toys; a model of a bridge; a coffee can; a Cartesian diver; and a goldfish, this program teaches equilibrium of forces by demonstrating the following concepts: zero gravity; balance and center of gravity; role of a keystone in an arch; weight of gases; weight, volume, displacement, and buoyancy; Archimedes'...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: This investigation employs a 100-watt incandescent bulb, nichrome wire, and a variac; electric wire, a dry cell, and a compass; an ammeter; an induction coil; argon, helium, neon, and mercury and a discharge tube; a string of lights on a Christmas tree; a Crookes tube and induction coil; and electrodes, an electric bulb, and a beaker alternately filled with water, sugar, table salt, vinegar,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: This program details the movements of an amusement park's water chute boat and roller coaster; an ice skater; a diver; a rubber ball; a rocket; toy carts; a steel ball and loop; and a swinging church lamp to investigate the following concepts: law of inertia; uniformly accelerated and uniform straight motion; free-fall motion; acceleration due to gravity; law of conservation of momentum;...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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