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A limited number of professionally-made videos are available; these are mainly demo versions. There are also some home-made videos, and blank tapes are available if you would like to videotape physics in action. Videos include:

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Mechanics
Number Time
(min:sec)
Title
80-213 2:05 Inertial forces - translational acceleration
80-214 3:15 Inertial forces - centripetal acceleration
80-251 3:00 The velocity vector
80-252 2:40 Velocity in circular and simple harmonic motion
80-253 3:50 The acceleration vector
80-254 3:30 Velocity and acceleration in circular motion
80-272 4:12 Constant velocity and uniform acceleration
80-273 4:09 Newton's first and second laws
80-274 2:51 Newton's third law
80-275 3:48 Conservation of momentum - inelastic collisions
80-276 2:33 Conservation of energy
80-277 4:03 Conservation of momentum - elastic collisions
80-280 4:09 How an air track works
80-301 3:36 Rotating reference frames
80-3064 3:50 Trajectories
80-3080 3:55 Circular motion
80-3114 4:00 Dynamics of circular motion
80-3155 2:35 Collisions in two dimensions
80-3452 3:00 Acceleration due to gravity I
80-3460 3:25 Acceleration due to gravity II
80-3478 3:35 Vector addition - velocity of a boat
80-3486 3:40 A matter of relative motion
80-3494 2:55 Galilean relativity - ball dropped from mast of ship
80-3528 3:00 Galilean relativity III - projectile fired vertically
80-3627 3:45 Central forces - iterated blows
80-3650 3:25 One-dimensional collisions I
80-3668 3:35 One-dimensional collisions II
80-3734 2:30 Explosion of a cluster of objects
80-3775 2:45 Colliding freight cars
80-4187 3:40 Newton's law of motion
80-4195 3:40 Fixed systems of orbiting bodies
80-4203 2:20 Moving system of orbiting bodies
80-4229 3:35 Orbiting bodies in various force fields II - negative power laws
Moving astronauts

Fluid mechanics
Number Time
(min:sec)
Title
82-0076 4:00 Drops and splashes

Oscillations and waves
Number Time
(min:sec)
Title
80-2181 3:15 Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse
80-231 3:00 Straight wave reflection from straight barriers
80-232 3:45 Circular wave reflection from various barriers
80-234 2:45 Refraction of waves
80-235 2:15 Barrier penetration by waves
80-236 4:00 Bragg reflection of waves
80-237 3:45 Doppler effect
80-238 3:45 Formation of shock waves
80-239 3:45 Superposition of pulses
80-240 4:00 Interference of waves
80-242 3:30 Single slit diffraction
80-243 3:25 Multiple slit diffraction
80-244 3:10 Diffraction and scattering around obstacles
80-255 3:30 Velocity and acceleration in simple harmonic motion
80-267 4:00 Coupled oscillators - energy transfer
80-269 4:10 Coupled oscillators - normal modes
80-3098 2:50 Simple harmonic motion
80-3858 3:05 Superposition
80-3866 2:35 Standing waves on a string
80-3882 3:40 Standing electromagnetic waves
80-3890 3:50 Vibrations of a rubber hose
80-3924 3:25 Vibrations of a drum

Thermodynamics
Number Time
(min:sec)
Title
80-2058 4:05 Critical temperature
80-291 4:00 Maxwellian speed distribution
80-3312 4:00 Thermal expansion of gases
80-3361 4:00 Motion of a molecule
80-3387 2:30 Boyle's Law
80-3395 3:50 Finding absolute zero
80-3437 3:40 Energy conversion

Electricity and magnetism
Number Time
(min:sec)
Title
80-4062 3:00 The magnetic field
80-4088 3:20 The field from a steady current
80-4112 3:35 Field vs. current
80-4138 3:40 Field: the force on a current
80-4161 3:10 The concept of changing flux
80-4179 3:10 Faradayıs law of induction

Optics
Number Time
(min:sec)
Title
80-206 3:45 Diffraction single slit
80-207 4:00 Diffraction double slit
80-208 3:55 Resolving power
80-2090 4:45 Michelson interferometer

Modern physics
Number Time
(min:sec)
Title
80-200 4:55 Radioactive decay
80-288 4:02 The photoelectric effect
80-3346 4:00 Radioactivity
80-3973 3:30 Collisions with an unknown object
80-4005 3:00 Scattering in one dimension 1 - barriers
80-4013 2:40 Scattering in one dimension 2 - square wells
80-4021 4:00 Scattering in one dimension 3 - edge effects
80-4039 3:00 Scattering in one dimension 4 - momentum space
80-4047 2:15 Free wave packets
80-4054 2:40 Particle in a box
6521 The speed of projectiles, sound, and light
6522 Simultaneity is relative
6523 The Michelson-Morley experiment
6524 Length contraction
6525 Time dilation
6526 The Doppler effect and the twin paradox
6527 World lines
6528 Coordinate transformation