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A collection of clips from the first Science Foundation course, S100

Thumbnail	Lecturer(s)	Title	Date
		Galileo's inclined plane experiment
		Introduction to Unit 17 of S100
		Time-lapse photography showing mitosis
		Cell division stages and characteristics
		A demonstration of the experimental methodology used to perform the transformation experiment
		The effect of selection on natural populations
		Success in evolutionary terms
		Artificial selection
		Examining a coastal environment to understand geological processes
		Grain size measurements of sand taken from different areas of a beach
		The nature of P and S waves
		What is a laboratory?
		Comparing the modern and historical research scientist
		Simulation of a solid using steel ball-bearings
		A simulation of the movement of molecules in a melting solid
		A simulation of liquid diffusion
		A demonstration of the diffusion of a gas (bromine)
		The types of energy that hold molecules together
		A demonstration of Brownian motion

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