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Educational film series

The Advanced Physics Series

This is a 5-part DVD series of lecture/demonstrations for Senior High School Physics teachers. These programs explore topics that are important, yet often present difficulties to students. They explore ways of demonstrating key concepts and other approaches to helping students. They also provide valuable briefings for teachers on rapidly developing areas such as photonics and synchrotrons.

Titles in this series

5 films

2007 · 54m

Light Phase and Matter

Dr Catherine Low discusses difficulties students have with models and concepts of light and matter. Catherine recently completed…

2007 · 51m

Photonics

Presenter: Dr Alex Mazzolini, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences at Swinburne University covers…

2007 · 42m

Sound and Other Demonstrations

Sandor Kazi presents a range of demonstrations related to waves, including: wave machines, standing waves, Chladni figures, ripple…

2007 · 45m

Special Relativity

Presenter: Joe Wolfe, Professor of Physics, University of New South Wales covers the topic Approaches to teaching Einstein's…

2007 · 58m

The Synchrotron

Presenter Mark Boland, an Accelerator Physicist at the Australian Synchrotron, explains the physics and operation of a synchrotron,…