The Physics of Difficult Experiments demonstrates a typical mechanics situations common to many senior Physics courses such as Circular motion, Projectile Motion, Straight line motion, Inclined plane. Describing these motions in terms of forces and energy transfers this program covers the topic of motion using a series of large scale, real life examples. In doing so it deals with the real life issues such as uncontrolled variables of non-uniform friction and subsequent energy loss. Each topic is reinforced with detailed analysis and discussion.
Grade levels: Adult
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Stay Rich Forever and Ever with Ed Slott
In this eye-opening program, renowned tax advisor Ed Slott reveals many of the startling facts behind retirement plan taxation and what you can do right now to ensure your financial future. Through his simple, effective Stay Rich Action Plan, you will learn how to protect your money from excessive taxation, how to have more money forever and more of it tax free, and how to take advantage of the laws to best-protect your tax-deferred savings.
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Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice – Pubic Performance
The Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off to the Red Planet in August 2007. This film chronicles the meticulous preparation through blastoff. The Phoenix Mars Lander scheduled to land on the Martian surface on May 25, 2008. Once on the surface, scientists from around the world will gather to search for water in the form of ice under the planet’s surface.
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China Inside Out
China is brimming with massive new wealth, more than 600 million people have been lifted out of poverty. China’s leaders know that their survival depends on meeting the needs and desires of its people. After years of relative isolation, China is reaching out to, and into the rest of the world. China has been shaking hands and making deals all around the world. China Inside Out examines how China’s rise is impacting all of us.
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The Brain Fitness Program – Public Performance
The Brain Fitness Program is based on the brain’s ability to change and adapt, even rewire itself. In the past two years, a team of scientists has developed computer-based stimulus sets that drive beneficial chemical, physical and functional changes in the brain. Dr. Michael Merzenich of the University of California and his colleagues share their scientifically based set of brain exercises in this life-altering program. Peter Coyote narrates.
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Brain Fitness 2: Sight and Sound – Home Use
This program, specifically designed to help people get the most from their vision and hearing as they age, considers how these senses change throughout life and what people can do to keep them healthy and fully functional.
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Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon – Home Use
TEN9EIGHT chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in an annual business plan competition. By learning how to be entrepreneurs, many of these students can now forge futures and destinies they never thought possible.
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Death or Canada: Fleeing the Famine
It’s been called the most traumatic event in Toronto’s history. In the summer of 1847, nearly 40,000 Irish famine refugees flooded the city, threatening to overwhelm the local population of only 20,000. A typhus epidemic followed and by the fall, more than 1,000 had died. It remains the single largest loss of life in the city’s history and the bodies of those who died are buried anonymously under a school playground in Toronto’s downtown east end. The two-hour docudrama begins in Ireland and finishes in Canada. It follows the journey of the Willis family, a family of six who left Ireland in the worst year of the famine and came to the new world in search of a better life.
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Acids and Bases Around the Home
This program familiarises students with the features of acids and bases, and discusses their physical and chemical properties. The pH scale is introduced with examples of strong and weak acids and bases and the concept of neutral substances is explored. The use of indicators to test the pH of acids and bases is explained, as well as showing the variety of indicators available and their specific uses. Students are shown how to make their own red cabbage indicator in the kitchen, and examples of acids and bases commonly found in the home are discussed. A description of neutralisation reactions and their products concludes the program.