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Science in Everyday Life: Physical Science Video Clips

This collection of 34 visually stunning video clips explores the environment and facets of physics. Properties of rain, ice, snow, oil, trees, volcanoes, and salt are examined, as are aspects of quantum physics, light phenomena, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, Newton’s Laws, and electricity.

Video clips include…

Our Environment

• The Science of Ice and Snow: How Do You Photograph a Snowflake?

• The Science of Ice and Snow: The Making of a Snowflake

• Valuable Oil: The Origins of Crude Oil

• Valuable Oil: A World Without Petroleum

• The Tree, Nature’s Great Survivor: How Alders Communicate

• The Tree, Nature’s Great Survivor: An Oak’s Story

• The Tree, Nature’s Great Survivor: How Trees Get Water and Nutrients

• The Tree, Nature’s Great Survivor: Tree Habitat

• Raindrops: How Rain Is Formed

• Raindrops: It’s Raining Cats and Dogs

• Raindrops: A Closer Look at Raindrops

• Living with Volcanoes: How Volcanoes Are Born

• Living with Volcanoes: Laboratory Volcanoes

• Water, Source of Life: How Water Came to Be on Our Planet

• Water, Source of Life: Cloud Catchers

• Water, Source of Life: Protective Reflex for the Respiratory System

• Water, Source of Life: Fluid Loss in the Sauna

• Precious Salt: A Profile of Salt

• What Has Happened to the Climate? Wrapping a Glacier

Understanding Physics

• The Secrets of the Quantum World: Max Planck

• The Secrets of the Quantum World: Lasers

• The Secrets of the Quantum World: Physics on the Sports Field

• Light Phenomena: Holography

• Light Phenomena: Luminescent Bacteria on the Apple Tree

• Light Phenomena: Secrets of Biology Revealed by Light

• Light Phenomena: A Night in the Zoo

• Light Phenomena: Wet Surfaces Look Darker

• Hydrodynamics: Water Resistance

• Hydrodynamics: Underwater Properties of a Rugby Ball

• Thermodynamics: The Thermal Effect

• Thermodynamics: Detonating Gas Effect in the Forge

• Newton’s Laws: Eggs and Gravity

• Newton’s Laws: Earth Rotation

• Putting Electricity to Work: From the High Wires to the Plug-In

(96 minutes)

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Item#: EDP37318
Copyright date: ©2008
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN 978-1-4213-7640-0

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