Friday, August 13, 2010
Memories and The Mechanical Universe
As I get ready to teach honors mechanics to first-year undergrads, I have been scouting the web for various resources. I ran across the complete series run of The Mechanical Universe (streaming for residents of the US and Canada), a great show that I remember watching on PBS occasionally when I was in high school. It's based on first-year physics at Cal Tech, and each episode opens and closes with David Goodstein lecturing to a class in an auditorium. It's very well done, and the computer animation was exceptionally good and informative, considering it was produced in the mid-1980s. Thanks, Annenberg Foundation, for making this show available! (Funny sequel of sorts: I actually had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Goodstein in 2003, and for some irrational reason I was surprised that he didn't look exactly the same as he had in 1984....)
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