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New! Shedding Light on Color
Item# 52775
© 2012
30 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-754-7
Color adds beauty to our lives and helps us express our deepest feelings, but what exactly is it? This video lays out the scientific principles at the heart of that question, examining the relationshi...
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New! Shedding Light on Curved Mirrors
Item# 53227
© 2012
48 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-769-1
Most of us have experienced the amusement (and possible embarrassment) that goes with standing in front of a distorted funhouse mirror. What many people don't realize is that convex and concave mirror...
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New! Shedding Light on Reflection
Item# 52776
© 2012
45 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-755-4
Using exciting live-action demonstrations and easy-to-understand animation, this video delves into the fundamental concepts of reflection and its relationship to light, vision, and the physical world....
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New! Shedding Light on Refraction
Item# 53315
© 2012
48 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-792-9
Anyone standing in front of a mirror will instantly recognize the concept of reflection at work, but to observe the process of refraction and to develop an in-depth knowledge of it is quite a differen...
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Inside the Light: The Mystery of Light in Quantum Physics
Item# 50438
© 2012
41 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-841-7
This program focuses on the spectacular achievements in quantum physics of 2012 Nobel laureate Serge Haroche as well as the University of Sussex’s Wolfgang Lange and others as it introduces...
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Light: Quirky Science
Item# 50326
© 2011
30 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-684-0
Dispite popular belief, Edison did not invent the lightbulb—many people contributed to the invention. Mind you, the first lamp was invented around 70,000 BC. This program examines Edison's actual cont...
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Telephony: Quirky Science
Item# 50327
© 2011
30 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-685-7
A man with an ear for music thought he could build a “harmonic telegraph.” He thought this would be possible because he had misinterpreted the writings of a researcher writing in German—a language he...
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Waves: Quirky Science
Item# 50335
© 2011
30 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-693-2
The invention of “waves”—as in radio waves or electromagnetic fields—has led to many great inventions. This program examines how the ability to transmit music, conversations, pictures, or data invisib...
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Breaking the Wall of Microscopic Motion: How Attophysics Captures the Fastest Phenomena of the Microcosm
Item# 49410
© 2011
16 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-471-6
An epic jump in our ability to produce innovation will come from the real-time observation of moving matter in the atomic scale. In 2001, Ferenc Krausz and his team pioneered a new technology, enablin...
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20,000 Cables under the Sea: The Internet and the Physics of Fiber Optics
Item# 42261
© 2010
46 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61733-213-5
The Internet’s mind-boggling flow of data that circulates so freely “in the cloud” does much of its real-world traveling beneath the sea in bundles of fiber-optic cable. This program sets sail on the...
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