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| Alternating Current explores alternating current and how the rationale was developed to use it for electric power transmission. Program includes the history of the transformer and the contributions of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.
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| Angular Momentum develops the ideas of angular momentum and torque through applications to planetary motion, whirlpools, tornadoes, and spinning ice skaters.
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| The Apple and the Moon explores how the universal law of gravitation emerged from Newton's efforts to reconcile Galileo's new kinematics with Kepler's new astronomy.
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| Conservation of Energy explains how kinetic energy, heat energy, and the concept of work weave together in the law of conservation of energy.
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| Conservation of Momentum illustrates how Newton's laws of motion lead to the fundamental law of conservation of momentum.
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| Curved Space and Black Holes analyzes Einstein's principle of equivalence and its consequences—curved space and black holes.
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| Electric Fields and Forces describes electric force and Faraday's concept of electric fields.
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| Electromagnetic Induction addresses Faraday's law related to induced electric fields and changing magnetic flux.
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| Equipotentials and Fields uses contour lines to illustrate the relationships between electric potentials and electric fields.
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| The Fundamental Forces demonstrates how all forces are manifestations of nature's fundamental forces _ gravity, electricity, and the weak nuclear force.
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| Harmonic Motion provides a model to illustrate the scientific process of extracting simple, underlying physical principles from complex behavior.
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| Introduction to Waves explores the generation and characteristics of mechanical waves.
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| Kepler's Laws depicts the momentous effort Kepler made to find a mathematical description for the motion of planets, particularly Mars.
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| The Law of Falling Bodies reviews Galileo's investigation of the law of falling bodies and emphasizes scientific methods.
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| The Law of Inertia looks at the methods Galileo used to arrive at the law of inertia and its immediate consequences, the relativity of motion.
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