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This programme explores one of the main ideas of quantum physics - wave-particle duality.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: S103, Discovering science
Item code: S103; 07
First transmission date: 1998
Published: 1998
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Duration: 00:29:30
Note: Loan copy available on compilation video S103/VCR3;
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Producer: Stephen Evanson
Contributors: Peter Capaldi; Don Eigler; John Gribben; John Polkinghorne
Publisher: BBC Open University
Footage description: Footage - B/w film: steam train. B/w photo: Einstein seated among a group of scientists, 1927. Fairground at night. Fairground lights. B/w photo: JJ Thompson at work. B/w photo: Thompson with colleagues. Archive b/w film: Thompson speaking (0'15"-2'50") - B/w archive American news film: newsreader, two people speaking on phone across a map of America, family group with woman on phone. B/w photo: Alexander Bell. Old style telephones. B/w map of America: New York to Denver phone line, 1912. B/w animation of person speaking into phone and signal weakening along wire. B/w film of a notebook sketches. Newspaper. B/w film clip: Lee DeForest. Article about the audion. B/w still of audion. Detail of audion. Animation: flow of electricity between metal plate and a wire surrounded by a vacuum (2'51"-5'03") - B/w film: trans-continental phone line & workers. B/w map: USA showing trans-continental phone line. B/w archive films: woman assembling audions, man entering booth. B/w photo: Bell Telephone Laboratory building. B/w film: ballet dancer rehearsing on set, camera man in foreground (5'03"-6'58") - Fairground at night. Waves on beach & Palace Pier illuminated behind. B/w photo: Max Planck. Furnace. Engineers. B/w photo: Planck. Steel production. 2 b/w photos: Einstein. B/w achive film from World War I: soldiers collecting uniforms, newspaper headline, soldiers tending to wounded, machine gun, crowd scattering. Steam train. Paris station. 2 billiard balls colliding and separating (6'59"-10'30") - B/w photo: De Broglie. B/w archive film: US TV presenter. Waves. Pebbly beach. Wave lapping around pier structure. Photo: George Thompson. Man looking out to sea. Palace pier illuminated. View of pier across sea. B/w photo: man at blackboard. B/w photo of E Schroedinger. Equation (10'31"-14'04") - Waves & equation. B/w animation of electron particles. B/w painting: Isaac Newton. 4 gauges. Machinery. Fairground at night. B/w photo: Werner Heisenberg. Fairground lights. Rides. Woman at stall. Clowns. B/w film: steam train. B/w photo: Solvay Conference group, 1927. Close ups of Einstein, Planck, Curie, De Broglie, Schroedinger, Pauli & Heisenberg. B/w archive film: New York harbour, Chrysler building, black children, street scenes, train. Woman operating machinery (14'05"-19'43") - Reflections in glass building. B/w archive film: men at machinery. Empire State building. Niagra Falls. Glass vacuum tube. Animation of electrons inside tube. Particle waves (19'44"-21'35") - Materials placed in electrical circuits. B/w archive film: soldiers firing ammunition, plane, bombs dropping. B/w archive film: the transistor. Transisitor in lab. B/w photos & archive film: William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain. Text & equations.
Master spool number: DOU9325
Production number: FOUS912S
Videofinder number: 5495
Available to public: no