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Compiled by The Institute of Educational Technology and BBC/OU Productions. Contain...s clips from Open University Mathematics programmes, including: MST282/14 Experiment Mechanics and Applied Calculus Rotating Frames of Reference 2 M202/09 Conventional Animation Topics in Pure Mathematics Finite State Machines MST281/13 Conventional Animation Elementary Mathematics Introducing Vector Spaces MST282/10 Models Mechanics and Applied Calculus Modelling Mechanical Vibrations M331/4 N-Dimensional Space I
The programme demonstrates that wave packets can be envisaged as being compounded o...f various sinusoidal waves and that the Fourier transformation is a limiting case of a Fourier series.
The Viking mission to Mars id the first attempt to search for signs of life on the ...surface of another planet. Timed to coincide with America's bi-centennial celebration, the two lander vehicles were due to touch down in July 1976. This programme was filmed in California in December 1975 when the spacecraft were in mid flight for Mars. The film's aim was to show details of the planning and strategy of the mission and specifically examine the design of the scientific experiments and the criteria a
The programme looks at methods for examining the properties of hadrons. It introduc...es the concepts of charge, baryon number and strangeness and postulates fundamental particles, quarks, of which the various hadrons are composed.
