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The physical world: collisions - for iPod/iPhone The Open University
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It has been called a 'Big Bang Machine', but what is the Large Hadron Collider and what do scientists hope it will discover? Presented by Robert Llewellyn, the three video tracks in this album address the science of collisions, the purpose of particle acceleration and the construction of the LHC at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. This cutting edge machine may detect the elusive Higgs boson, and with it reveal the origin of mass, the missing piece in our understanding of matter. If it succeeds, it will begin the next era of research into the nature of the universe. This material forms part of The Open University course S207 The physical world.
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Transcript -- The physical world: collisions
An introduction to this album
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Accident investigation
At the scene of a vehicle collision, both the physical evidence and the laws of physics, help police establish precisely what happened
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Transcript -- Accident investigation
At the scene of a vehicle collision, both the physical evidence and the laws of physics, help police establish precisely what happened
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Particle collisions
Professors Frank Close and Tejinder Virdee explain why physicists smash particles together and what happens in a particle collision
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Transcript -- Particle collisions
Professors Frank Close and Tejinder Virdee explain why physicists smash particles together and what happens in a particle collision
Customer Reviews
Disappointing. Don't waste your time
Six episodes that should be part of one. While there is a bit of interesting trivia, such as a particle circling in the LHC has about the energy of a buzzing mosquito, this collection is clearly the USA Today-Lite version of physics. If you already know the word neutron contains the letter e, don't bother.
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