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Description
The programme deals with the kinematic aspects of motion using as an example the parabolic trajectory of a golf ball.
The programme deals with the kinematic aspects of motion using as an example the parabolic trajectory of a golf ball.
| Module code and title: | T231, Introduction to engineering mechanics |
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| Item code: | T231; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 16-02-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:30 |
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| Producer: | Andrew Crilly |
| Contributor: | Peter Lucas |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Circular motion; Dynamics; Golf ball; Harmonic motion; Kinetics; Mathematical model; Moon orbit; Motion; Parabola; Trajectories |
| Footage description: | Film shots of play at a major golf tournament. Peter Lucas, with the aid of animations, examines the simple up and down motion of the golf ball from tee to green. He then modifies this picture to show that the ball actually moves in a parabolic path. More film shots of play during the golf tournament. Peter Lucas sums up the conditions which determine the trajectory of the golf ball. Peter Lucas uses a drawing board to describe, mathematically, the motion of the golf ball in the vertical direction. Lucas goes on to describe, mathematically, the horizontal component of the trajectory. Shot of a cartoon showing astronaut golfers on the moon. Peter Lucas, with the aid of animations, demonstrates the shape of different trajectories of a golf ball hit from a mountain top on the moon at various velocities ends with a golf ball in circular orbit about the moon. Peter Lucas with continued aid of the moon animation above, describes, in terms of a simple mathematical model, the motion of the golf ball. He works out both horizontal and vertical components. Peter Lucas sums up. More animations while he talks. Credits. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71415 |
| Production number: | 00525_5102 |
| Videofinder number: | 2219 |
| Available to public: | no |
