Magnetism #3 - with Sir Lawrence Bragg
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Sir Lawrence first describes and contrasts the two classes of magnetic bodies 'ferro-magnetics and para-magnetics' and demonstrates the relationship between magnetic properties and temperature.
He discusses the earth's magnetism and illustrates Wegener's novel theory of the history of the continents. In a series of vivid demonstrations Sir Lawrence shows how more recent knowledge of magnetism has fully validated Wegener's theory. From the original programme notes: Sir Lawrence Bragg at the Royal Institution of Great Britain Since 1826 a series of lectures, planned for young people, has been given at the Royal Institution during the fortnight after Christmas.
These lectures, 'adapted to a juvenile auditory' to use the nineteenth-century phase, were started as a new venture in science teaching. It is the tradition to illustrate the CHRISTMAS LECTURES with numerous experiments which are on an impressive scale and as far as possible of a novel type. Many experiments first shown in the Royal Institution theatre have become classical bench-experiments in schools and colleges, and many of the best popular scientific books have been based on CHRISTMAS LECTURES. A scheme was launched in 1955 to give corresponding lectures throughout the school year, because it seemed very desirable to use the facilities and traditions of the Institution to the full and thus make it possible for a larger audience to participate.
The idea was proposed in the first place to a few science teachers in schools, and with their help it was started in a small way. The lectures had an enthusiastic reception, and the scheme soon grew to its present proportions – over twenty thousand young people now come to the lectures each year. The main idea behind them is to show experiments, illustrating the basic principles of science, which are on too large a scale or involve too complicated apparatus to be readily staged with school resources. The majority of the lectures are on physical subjects, but chemistry and biology are also represented.
In 1965, Lord Bowden, who was then Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science, expressed a wish that the lectures given by Sir Laurence Bragg be recorded in the form of films, and arranged that a sum of money be earmarked for that purpose. The series Sir Lawrence Bragg at the Royal Institution is the result of his interest. The films have been commissioned by the Educational Foundation for Visual Aids and shot on the premises of the Royal Institution. At first an attempt was made to film the actual schools' lectures, but there were a number of drawbacks to this procedure. Ideal positions for the cameras were not possible in a crowded lecture room.
An hour's talk is too long, the film had to be divided into three or four sections, and it was not easy to tailor beginning and ends to the sections. It was finally realised that it would be much better to shoot each film as a separate project, with no audience and complete freedom for the camera team to take the long shots and close-ups in the best way. The possibility of close-up shots is a great advantage, because it enables effects to be shown which it would be impossible to demonstrate in a large lecture room. The present series consists of sixteen films covering the schools' lectures dealing with magnetism, the properties of matter, and vibrations and waves. It is hoped to include electricity and other subjects in a further series. In the main, the experiments are those actually shown in the schools' lectures, modified for filming where desirable.
The action before the camera is in each case carefully rehearsed so that the performance of the experiment is seen as clearly as possible. No attempt however has been made to prepare a 'script'. The talk is quite informal, not a prepared one, in the belief that it will be fresher and more interesting if given in this way. It is hoped that the imperfections, inevitable in an impromptu talk, will be overlooked for the sake of its more personal nature.
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"in other words, sheep are ferromagnetic, cats are paramagnetic"
I love it!
I wish Sir Lawrence Bragg was my high school teacher...or that we could have at least watched these videos in class. Great vids! =)
It's fascinating seeing someone who was working in science, actually winning a Nobel prize, at the same time that Wegener predicted the theory of continental drift explain it 50 years later, after it had been proved correct
Great information
Super explanation sir
Great series!
What is that spinning wheel called (in Curie Point demo) and what material is it made of?
3:00 was this man the very first TH-cam user? he has such a Magnetic Personality 👅
Lvuuuuuuuuu
U rrrr greaaat
Sir I want to know more about communication. What I do for that
He does have a very pleasant personality and that makes his lectures so much more effective.
I think he said "EweTewbe"
Excellent! Bravo Cheers!
@MichaelKingsfordGray ? 🤔
Well, now I know that there is more to magnetism than just picking up pins.
What metal was that in the dog tag?
I did not know about the dip needle.
wow
i think that everything has a paramagnetic attraction and that gravity is just a force of magnetism from earths magnetic field? 🤔🤷♂️
gravity is always attractive. You never see two bodies in space repel each other. There are non-magnetic objects called diamagnetic substances. Carbon, nitrogen, etc.
What about Mexico?
herding cats! lol
That's it. All the teachers in grade school need to be replaced with the Ri videos.
Higgaldy piggaldy. Translation: That dog won't hunt.
So according to this experiment our Magnetic South pole is located at Earth's Geographical North Pole. And vice versa..
Our magnetic South Pole is up north, correct, although it wanders over time and is not precisely at the North Geographic Pole. The magnetic North Pole is somewhere in Antarctica.
Now explain this to a flat Earthier and there whole world will unravel right before them.
Gravity is a dielectric acceleration of a ferro substance to a null pressure zone...IE inertia acceleration (Ether)