Episode 34: Magnetism - The Mechanical Universe

Episode 34. Magnetism: Gilbert discovered that the earth behaves like a giant magnet. Modern scientists have learned even more.
“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

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One of my all time favorite series. Changed my life

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Same here. I'm telecommunications Engineer now in Peru

[@paulg444]

This man is a treasure !

[@gmcmigue1858]

this serie get me 20 years ago.

[@alitlweird]

I used to watch this all the time on Ch 20 WYCC. Loved it.

[@tornado4441]

who else watching this high af???

[@dinomra7771]

Are you still high?

[@tornado4441]

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[@jdwhitewolf]

@caltech Please replace the original Annenberg Media introduction audio *with blank/placeholder audio* and bring the rest of the audio back into sync. Please. Thank you!

[@verysimplephysicsinthamil1436]

Great performance ever I have seen.......

[@ArtDocHound]

He should be in sales.

[@carlasouza5194]

I wish I could meet prog Goodstein

[@prolearner1306]

Anyone still curious about magnetic monopole?

[@mt22956]

Haunted by it...

[@ptyptypty3]

I don't suppose there's anyway to Correct the Audio in phase with the video???

[@ulutiu]

Open 2 of the same videos. The one you watch should be muted and the one you don't watch should give the sound. Now you can sync sound and vision.

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[@goosew3266]

This is so annoying. Whoever put the Annenberg Media logo at the front of these videos really made a mistake. It throws the whole audio off the video. I have watched these lectures more than once, so I know there was not always this Annenberg Media introduction. Can someone please put it back to what it was?

[@jdwhitewolf]

Yes, it has always been there, but the audio for it was removed and this shifted the audio tracks over. SO ANNOYING. I've been referring to the videos for years. Somebody made a small mistake, but I guess Caltech in not interested in fixing it...

[@dougsmith1723]

15:30-23:17

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I get a kick from the science music

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Any one listening in lockdown give a like

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