Doors, heart valves, and flic-flacs. Moments

Description

After explaining the principle of moments, this program shows how apparently dissimilar physical phenomena are actually mathematically similar through the examples of a synthetic heart valve, a lock gate, and the gymnastic maneuver known as a flic-flac, or back handspring. The need to make careful approximations during the modeling process is stressed.

Runtime

51 min

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Date of Publication

[2006], c1999

Database

Films on Demand

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