EMR and the Stars

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Elevators, escalators and an amusement park ride explain mechanical energy transformations and provide data to calculate the work done and power…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Analyses the transformation of gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy using algebraic and graphical means. The motion of a mass on a…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The work-energy theorem is used to solve problems involving change of gravitational potential energy to mechanical kinetic energy and the work done…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Information is gathered from a vehicle-safety expert and a self-defence instructor and used in an exploration of the concepts of momentum and…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The biathlon provides the context for investigating the law of conservation of momentum. Identifies different types of collisions in which momentum…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explores the conservation of momentum in two dimensions on location at a curling rink and in the laboratory with an air table. Applies conservation…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explores the concept of conservation of momentum in two dimensions in the context of fireworks, bumper cars, open-pit mining, and within the isolated…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Elastic and inelastic collisions are analysed. A montage of sports images reveals that most collisions are inelastic. Uses criteria of conservation…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Exploring the physics of a soccer game, a projectile spring and a ballistic pendulum, leads to the understanding of the concepts of energy and…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explores benefits and risks in personal safety equipment, and develops a generic Risk-Benefit Assessment model. The model is used to reach personal…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Historic views, from the two-fluid concept of the Greeks to Franklin's single positive fluid, explain electrostatic charge in terms of electrons…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Introduces charging by conduction and induction by showing how Rice Krispies are attracted to a charged rod and then fly off. Explains a Van de…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

A torsion balance is used in a quantitative analysis of the relationship among charge, distance and electrostatic force to verify Coulomb's law…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Ionic crystals provide a real-life application of quantifying electrostatic forces between point chages. Large-sized models are used to facilitate…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The concept of field and field strength around point charges is developed from the parallel ideas in gravitation. Investigates the shape of…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Defines electric potential and electric potential difference. A ride on a water slide is used to compare the effects of potential difference on…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Investigates the shape of electric fields between and around plates, and reveals the uniformity of such fields. Analyses the behaviour of moving…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Viewers are challenged to devise a source of potential difference from provided materials. Investigates electric-current concepts by discussion…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Investigates the nature of resistance and safety when dealing with electric circuits. Focuses on the dangers posed by electric current and how to…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Gathers and analyses quantitative data of simple series and parallel circuits. The analysis develops mathematical expressions describing the…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Develops a five-step procedure for analysing network circuits and uses it to analyse a model circuit built by referring to historic trolleys…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explores the development of electrical systems in automobiles, from turn of the century cars to hybrid electric vehicles. Using automobile circuitry…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Examines the use of a compass needle in navigation and links its behaviour to the Earth's magnetic field. Explains how other common magnetic objects…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The concept of electromagnetism is introduced and investigated. The principles discussed are then applied to the workings of a malfunctioning…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Viewers apply motor-effect principles to the design of electric DC motors. A quantitative investigation is performed to determine the force on a…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Auroras provide a context to study moving charges within a magnetic field. Shows that moving electric charges experience a force in magnetic fields…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Investigates induction and provides explanations of the effect based on magnetic field-current interactions. Discussions with musicians and…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Rotates a loop of wire in a magnetic field, returns to basic principles to explain the observations, and then compares generators to motors…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Investigates the self-regulating nature of electric-motor speeds and uses Lenz's law as a method of explaining the event. The Meissner effect and…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explains the operating principles of the transformer and gathers empirical evidence to deduce the relationships among the important variables at…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Focuses on the historic development (Oersted, Ampere, Faraday, Maxwell) of electromagnetic theory. Mini-labs demonstrate the wave-like behaviour of…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Emphasis is placed on how radio transmission and reception occur through a studio model of a transmitter and receiver and interviews with experts…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Discusses the relative energy of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies ii terms of their penetrating ability in human tissue. Focuses on…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Traces historical events that led up to the discovery of cathode rays and X-rays. Explains that science often progresses in a haphazard way: one…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

A detailed analysis of J.J. Thomson's charge-to-mass ratio experiement. Data from the experiment is used to calculate the ratio of charge to mass…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Repeats R.A. Millikan's oil-drop experiment. Measures, collects and carries out an analysis of the data to determine the charge on one electron…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Observes the behaviour of light in experiments involving black body radiation and the photoelectric effect. When the observations are analyzed from…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Data is collected and analysed to investigate the photoelectric effect and begin to quantify the photon model of light. These concepts are applied…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Examines the medical use of x-rays, x-ray production, the photoelectric and Compton effects, and wave-particle duality as it applies to photons. De…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Reveals the visible spectra of a number of gases, and explains the analytical power of spectral analysis. This line of thought leads to a number of…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Uses the Rydberg equation to quantitatively analyse the hydrogen gas spectrum. The idea of energy levels within the hydrogen atom is introduced…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The ideas of atomic spectra and the specifics of the hydrogen spectrum are synthesized to present Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom. The laser…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence provide the context to explore, qualitatively, the main ideas of the quantum mechanical model of…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Radioactivity is introduced. Explores the properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation and conducts a risk-benefit assessment, in the context of…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Radioactive decay is introduced using radioactive dating of artifacts and fossils as examples. Explains how to describe decay in terms of nuclear…

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The final program of the series looks to the future. In the context of speculating how electricity will be generated 40 years from now, it…

By Liacos Educational Media - 2014

What are electromagnetic waves and how did they discover that light is made of them? How did they discover all the electromagnetic waves (like radio…

By Liacos Educational Media - 2014

Shedding Light on Lenses is the fourth video in the phenomenal Shedding Light series. Conveniently broken up into nine sections, Science teacher…

By Liacos Educational Media - 2014

With brilliant visuals, engaging explanations, and outstanding animations, science teacher Spiro Liacos leads students from the swimming pool into…