Summary: Is light composed of waves or particles? This collection of 17 computer-animated video modules explores the wave model of light, from its earliest roots to our modern understanding of electromagnetism. Empedocles' belief that light streams from the eye, Aristotle's conception of light as a disturbance in ether, and Euclid's mathematical, ray-centered paradigms are all explored. The Cartesian...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Exploring the antithesis of the wave model, this album of eight computer-animated video segments looks at the particle approach to studying light. Black-body radiation, Planck's constant, the Photoelectric Effect, and the work of James Clerk Maxwell are presented as forerunners to Einstein's concept of photon frequency. Examples of a slope intercept graph and a revised double-slit experiment...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: How did 20th-century physics change long-held notions of light's makeup and behavior? This group of 12 concise computer-animated videos illustrates Einstein's monumental contributions to the study of light. Showing how rudimentary ideas of material wave motion yielded to more advanced concepts of electromagnetic waves, the program details Einstein's conclusions about the speed of light and his...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The speed of light is constant in a vacuum-but what about in the everyday world? This collection of 23 computer-animated video shorts examines the behavior of light as it passes through physical substances. Outlining Ptolemy's Law of Refraction and the concept of angle of incidence, the program examines light's motion through air, water, glass, and other media. Snell's Law, highlighting the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: What does a mirror tell us about light? This cluster of 11 computer-animated video units delves into one aspect of light's behavior-reflection. Euclid's geometric optics and his findings on the perception of distance and perspective lead to a discussion of the Law of Reflection-linking angle of incidence with angle of reflection-and the concepts of absorption, transmission, and diffuse...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007