1. Introduction
This preview introduces revolutionary ideas and heroes from Copernicus to Newton, and links the physics of the heavens and the earth. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

2. The Law of Falling Bodies
Galileo's imaginative experiments proved that all bodies fall with the same constant acceleration. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

3. Derivatives
The function of mathematics in physical science and the derivative as a practical tool. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

4. Inertia
Galileo risks his favored status to answer the questions of the universe with his law of inertia. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

5. Vectors
Physics must explain not only why and how much, but also where and which way. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

6. Newton's Laws
Newton lays down the laws of force, mass, and acceleration. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

7. Integration
Newton and Leibniz arrive at the conclusion that differentiation and integration are inverse processes. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

8. The Apple and the Moon
The first real steps toward space travel are made as Newton discovers that gravity describes the force between any two particles in the universe. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

9. Moving in Circles
A look at the Platonic theory of uniform circular motion. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

10. Fundamental Forces
All physical phenomena of nature are explained by four forces: two nuclear forces, gravity, and electricity. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

11. Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism
Shedding light on the mathematical form of the gravitational, electric, and magnetic forces. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

12. The Millikan Experiment
A dramatic recreation of Millikan's classic oil-drop experiment to determine the charge of a single electron. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

13. Conservation of Energy
According to one of the major laws of physics, energy is neither created nor destroyed. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

14. Potential Energy
Potential energy provides a powerful model for understanding why the world has worked the same way since the beginning of time. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

15. Conservation of Momentum
What keeps the universe ticking away until the end of time? VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

16. Harmonic Motion
The music and mathematics of periodic motion. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

17. Resonance
Why a swaying bridge collapses with a high wind, and why a wine glass shatters with a higher octave. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

18. Waves
With an analysis of simple harmonic motion and a stroke of genius, Newton extended mechanics to the propagation of sound. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

19. Angular Momentum
An old momentum with a new twist. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

20. Torques and Gyroscopes
From spinning tops to the precession of the equinoxes. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

21. Kepler's Three Laws
The discovery of elliptical orbits helps describe the motion of heavenly bodies with unprecedented accuracy. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

22. The Kepler Problem
The deduction of Kepler's laws from Newton's universal law of gravitation is one of the crowning achievements of Western thought. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

23. Energy and Eccentricity
The precise orbit of a heavenly body — a planet, asteroid, or comet — is fixed by the laws of conservation of energy and angular momentum. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

24. Navigating in Space
Voyages to other planets use the same laws that guide planets around the solar system. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

25. Kepler to Einstein
From Kepler's laws and the theory of tides, to Einstein's general theory of relativity, into black holes, and beyond. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

26. Harmony of the Spheres
A last lingering look back at mechanics to see new connections between old discoveries. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

27. Beyond the Mechanical Universe
The world of electricity and magnetism, and 20th-century discoveries of relativity and quantum mechanics. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

28. Static Electricity
Eighteenth-century electricians knew how to spark the interest of an audience with the principles of static electricity. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

29. The Electric Field
Faraday's vision of lines of constant force in space laid the foundation for the modern force field theory. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

30. Potential and Capacitance
Franklin proposes a successful theory of the Leyden jar and invents the parallel plate capacitor. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

31. Voltage, Energy, and Force
When is electricity dangerous or benign, spectacular or useful? VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

32. The Electric Battery
Volta invents the electric battery using the internal properties of different metals. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

33. Electric Circuits
The work of Wheatstone, Ohm, and Kirchhoff leads to the design and analysis of how current flows. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

34. Magnetism
Gilbert discovered that the earth behaves like a giant magnet. Modern scientists have learned even more. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

35. The Magnetic Field
The law of Biot and Sarvart, the force between electric currents, and Ampère's law. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

36. Vector Fields and Hydrodynamics
Force fields have definite properties of their own suitable for scientific study. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

37. Electromagnetic Induction
The discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831 creates an important technological breakthrough in the generation of electric power. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

38. Alternating Current
Electromagnetic induction makes it easy to generate alternating current while transformers make it practical to distribute it over long distances. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

39. Maxwell's Equations
Maxwell discovers that displacement current produces electromagnetic waves or light. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

40. Optics
Many properties of light are properties of waves, including reflection, refraction, and diffraction. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

41. The Michelson-Morley Experiment
In 1887, an exquisitely designed measurement of the earth's motion through the ether results in the most brilliant failure in scientific history. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

42. The Lorentz Transformation
If the speed of light is to be the same for all observers, then the length of a meter stick, or the rate of a ticking clock, depends on who measures it. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

43. Velocity and Time
Einstein is motivated to perfect the central ideas of physics, resulting in a new understanding of the meaning of space and time. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

44. Mass, Momentum, Energy
The new meaning of space and time make it necessary to formulate a new mechanics. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

45. Temperature and Gas Laws
Hot discoveries about the behavior of gases make the connection between temperature and heat. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

46. Engine of Nature
The Carnot engine, part one, beginning with simple steam engines. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

47. Entropy
The Carnot engine, part two, with profound implications for the behavior of matter and the flow of time through the universe. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

48. Low Temperatures
With the quest for low temperatures came the discovery that all elements can exist in each of the basic states of matter. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

49. The Atom
A history of the atom, from the ancient Greeks to the early 20th century, and a new challenge for the world of physics. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

50. Particles and Waves
Evidence that light can sometimes act like a particle leads to quantum mechanics, the new physics. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

51. From Atoms to Quarks
Electron waves attracted to the nucleus of an atom help account for the periodic table of the elements and ultimately lead to the search for quarks. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA

52. The Quantum Mechanical Universe
A last look at where we've been and a peek into the future. VOD viewing restricted to: US/CA