Slides, Audio Tapes & Compact Discs

• 35 mm slides
• Slides and Cassette Tape Sets
• Audio Tapes
• Compact Discs

Supernova 1987A - 6 slides plus booklet (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)

The sky at many wavelengths - 11 slides plus booklet (ASP)

• The Electromagnetic spectrum
• The visible sky
• The radio sky
• The 21 centimeter sky
• The microwave sky
• Molecular clouds
• The infrared sky
• Infrared sources
• The X-ray sky
• X-ray sources
• The gamma-ray sky

Cosmic background explorer - 16 slides plus booklet (ASP)

• Herman, Gamow and Alpher
• Penzias and Wilson
• COBE spacecraft
• Differential microwave radiometer
• Far infrared absolute spectrophotometer
• Diffuse infrared background experiment
• Cosmic background spectrum
• Cosmic background temperature versus wavelength
• Full sky microwave maps
• Dipole subtracted maps
• Near-infrared image of the milky way
• All-sky images
• Ionized carbon emission in the milky way
• Dust emission in the Milky way
• Radiation COBE sees
• Temperature variations in cosmic background radiation

The Radio Universe - 40 slides plus booklet (ASP)

• Basic radio telescope
• Radio interferometer
• Very Large Array
• 3 steps in VLA data reduction
• radio images of galaxies, planetary nebulae, supernova remnants and more

Hubble Telescope Images

• PRC96-01a
• PRC96-01b
• PRC96-01c
• PRC96-10
• PRC96-27
• PRC96-36a
• PRC95-02
• PRC95-14
• PRC95-43a

Visual Illusions - 39 slides

• lots of interesting stuff. I'm not sure how it would be used in a Physics course but we've got it.

Miscellaneous slides

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Slides and Cassette Tape Sets

1A. Einstein and the Special Theory of Relativity
1B. Einstein's General theory of Relativity
Cornelius Lanczos and Lochlain O'Raifeartaigh

2A. The basis of the Quantum Theory, Part I
2B. The basis of the Quantum Theory, Part II
Rudolf Peierls and Brian E. Woolnough

3A.Symmetries in Particle Physics - Mainly Discrete Symmetries
3B. Symmetries in Particle Physics - Mainly Continuous Symmetries
John Charap and Professor Heyman

4A. Nuclear Properties and Collective Motions
4B. The Nuclear Shell Model
Denys Haigh Wilkinson and R.J. Blin-Stoyle

6A. Probing the Radio Universe
6B. The Birth and Death of Stars
Simon Mitton and S.J. Burnell

7A. The Black and White Stars
7B. Wither Gravity?
John Taylor and Roger Penrose

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Audio Tapes

The Science of Sound - 2 cassette tapes plus a script (Bell Labs, 1959)

How we hear; Frequency; Pitch; Vibration and Resonance; Intensity Loudness; Noise Measurement; Masking; Echo and Reverberation; Delay Distortion; Fundamentals and Overtones; Quality; Subjective Tones; Music and Noise; Filtered Music and Speech; Dissonance and Consonance; Music Scales; Vibrato and Tremolo; The Doppler Effect

The Look of Music - cassette tape to accompany exhibit of same name at the Vancouver Museum several years ago. Of interest for a Physics of Music course.

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Compact Discs

Auditory Demonstrations - 1 CD plus booklet (Houtsma, Rossing, Wagenaars, prepared at the Institute for Perception Research, 1987)

39 demonstrations including, eg, the decibel scale; cancelled harmonics; circularity in pitch judgement; frequency difference limen or jnd; ......

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