Episode 27: Beyond The Mechanical Universe - The Mechanical Universe

Episode 27. Beyond the Mechanical Universe: The world of electricity and magnetism, and 20th-century discoveries of relativity and quantum mechanics.
“The Mechanical Universe,” is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course.
Each program in the series opens and closes with Caltech Professor David Goodstein providing philosophical, historical and often humorous insight into the subject at hand while lecturing to his freshman physics class. The series contains hundreds of computer animation segments, created by Dr. James F. Blinn, as the primary tool of instruction. Dynamic location footage and historical re-creations are also used to stress the fact that science is a human endeavor.
The series was originally produced as a broadcast telecourse in 1985 by Caltech and Intelecom, Inc. with program funding from the Annenberg/CPB Project.
The online version of the series is sponsored by the Information Science and Technology initiative at Caltech. ist.caltech.edu
©1985 California Institute of Technology, The Corporation for Community College Television, and The Annenberg/CPB Project

[@babbumann7624]

BEAUTIFUL SCRIPT.. WHAT A WAY TO PRESENT THE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE

[@recnepsgnitnarb6530]

Thank you Cal Tech for publishing this series. I remember watching this series on PBS when I was 12 in 1984 and grasping most of the concepts and math taught. I have the printed book and have used it in my engineering career to this day.

[@maurocruz1824]

Do you got the second volume of the book?

[@letsimage]

can you write the name of the book pls?

[@shaktikashyap6]

Can you tell us the name of the books..

[@Yousof2044]

@@shaktikashyap6 refer to my replies above

[@Warriorpend2]

The Einstein/Levi-Civita correspondence is wonderful.

[@NicholasEllis-rs3nx]

Hands down the best lectures in the world, Walter Lewin or Richard Muller only wish that they were this good. Should be taught in all schools

[@paulg444]

Thank you Prof. Goodstein.

[@stanleycates1972]

I have the original books from many years ago. Yellow highlited everywhere. As a retired EE I confess to ignoring the first book of mechanics. What a pleasure to review my favorite parts today at 83. Faraday and Franklin are my hero's because I was always poor at math and got by with maths already proven for me to use. I did my last project at 79 and used Dow Chemicals computer systems. My knowledge of switch gear and sub stations was sorely needed in applying existing cook book computer designs. Many of today's engineers are poorly prepared for complex design without cook book computer applications. They cannot recognize flaws that would be very costly. To me #27 is the core lesson for anyone interested in the backbone of electrical engineering. Jacob Bronowski became my virtual mentor with The Ascent of Man and then Science and Human Values, proving to me the true practice of science and engineering is possible without a bible.

[@stanleycates1972]

Faraday was a trained book binder who convinced Sir Humphry Davy to give him a job in his lab cleaning and helping any way he could. About 5 years later fascinated by magnetism and coils, he noticed a deflection in a galvanometer connect to a separated coil than the one he was passing current through. Thus the most important discovery of the century. Magnetic induction. BTW it's James Clerk Maxwell :)

[@universocalculado4639]

Enfim a série vai falar sobre o Eletromagnetismo ( principalmente as belas equações de Maxwell ) , a Teoria da Relatividade , a Termodinâmica e a Mecânica Quântica . Eu já estava ansioso por isso .

[@A1985]

why did you post this I have to watch this then write 16pages of what i understand and I'm only 10years old

[@l3utterfish]

Later on, when asked what he liked best about Italy, Einstein said "spaghetti and Levi-Civita".

[@brainstormingsharing1309]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@jimholmes2555]

I thought Nobel won the first Nobel prize for Dynamite.

[@kuboteusz]

Great series, but its biggest flaw is stating some facts with the unnecessary commentary "of course". Why repeat this phrase every other sentence? Nothing is truly "of course", nothing is obvious for the viewer, and if it is, why say it? Omitting it would improve the flow of the sentences.

[@421sap]

In Jesus' Name, Amen. God bless you ✝️✨

[@benquinneyiii7941]

Was Tesla really a god?

[@tovahkaplan9222]

kayu tv fox 28 fox kids june 22 1996 0:29

[@abcdef2069]

all your video contents are good, but the ear piercing intro music and the fairly high pitch constant background musics stop me from listening more till understanding.

[@philoso377]

Page 16:10 Albert Michelson is the right man for his Nobel priced apparatus but he is the wrong man for its application. That cause him fail to detect Aether. Application? Michelson knew little to none about physics of light and it’s medium failed to provide a correct test condition ending in disappointment detecting no Aether. Equally or more ignorant in light and Aether, Einstein jumped on an opportunity declaring light needs no medium to propagate to establish his Special Relativity falsely claim of time dilation with speeding traveler.

[@JivanPal]

Falsely claim of time dilation? Yeah, okay then, never mind the fact that there is no shortage of evidence backing up the claim... Do you have any evidence to back up the opposite claim that light does _not_ move at constant speed in all inertial frames of reference?

[@philoso377]

@@JivanPal this isn’t a liberated process. When the connection is broken it is a fallacy, that any further defense has no meaning.

[@JivanPal]

@@philoso377 , you haven't answered my question. How have you falsified the notion that lightspeed is absolute?

[@philoso377]

@@JivanPal give me some time I’ll copy you some evidence.

[@philoso377]

@@JivanPal Michelson + Morley 1887 The relative velocity of the Earth and Aether was probably less than 1/6 of the Earth’s orbit velocity S, and certainly less than S/4. (or between 5~8km/s) This data point of MMX was dismissed to make way for Einstein’s theory of relativity. Statically, the Michelson-Morley experiment says we are 99.9% sure that the Earth’s velocity is between 6km/s and 10km/s. While the absolute error is (30-8)=22km/s. Alternatively, absolute error may be (8-0)km/s. Leaving the theory is 1% correct. Miller reiterate MMX in 1933 result with 30km/s