This show is one of the reasons I am a Scientist and Engineer today. You guys seriously need to get it digitally remastered and sell it to a streaming service ASAP. It is solid gold for learning and was one of the shows that demonstrated the power of weaving together the history of Science and Engineering with the actual Mathematics and Physics.
I discovered this show well after I completed engineering school. All of these things I read and learned from books (while doing the accompanying homework!). It is so cool to find it after all this time to be able to show to people. I consider this "just the lectures" but it is not in any way a substitute for a proper rigorous education in the physical sciences. That being said, philosophy of science should be required for engineers given where all of us end up after thinking for long enough. Lab work and home work are needed! I agree 100% with your comment.
@@baconology3065 so do you guys have any advice for a 25 yo who was pretty good at maths at first but then came a secondary school and both maths and physics became a huge problem and who wants to give it another try now? Any good books, lectures?
@@dgandgdeye: It's basically too late for you unfortunately! You're too old. You must have at least alot of math abilities in high school(U.S.) beginning at about age 15!
@@roberttelarket4934 It's not too late what are you talking about. If he works hard he could get a sucessful career in some field related to science by 30.f At this point the field that takes the less work to make decent money is computer programming. Entry level jobs won't be close to science but over time you can specialize towards simulation, graphics, interplay of logic topology and automata, graph theory, homotopy type theory, category theory, lambda calculus, etc.
Ah yes, I've been searching for this a long time. Back in 1986 I could never have imagined watching the series on a phone while sitting on a mountain top.
@@roberttelarket4934 "Hard times create Strong men . Strong men create good times ." Our new generation stands on the shoulder of hard workers of previous ones . it is all thanks to our parents and their unending efforts that we can see this day . thanks
Dam am walking & thinking alike for my next age! Dam you earth it feels all like a digital reality lol hope it does if ai & others are not do crazy & ADHD war clouds? Humans over built up steem balance ♎⚖️ on devices amounts around you! % life
I watched this while in High school. I never had the math skills to keep up with the equations, but the show gave me a greater understanding of the physics behind much of our world. I still remember the terminology, and even if I still don't know the math I can still carry on a conversation with the engineers I work with. Thank you for giving me this knowledge and all for free.
My children grew up with these videos. I taped them from the TV and we would watch them together. Now my grandchildren are beginning to benefit from these gems. Thank you.
One of the greatest educational series ever made. A tremendous motivational learning tool when I was in engineering school. I just stumbled upon it again and it brought back fond memories of why I wanted to be an engineer at the time.
I first saw these videos back in 1986...they were of the best ever made to that time......I still believe after all of this time, they are still the best. Every physics and science student should view these and old teachers like myself...as well..lol So wonderfully done and have stood the test of time so well.
I was home schooling my Kids during the mid-1990s. Lisa, Vicky and Shirley are 37, 36, and, 35 respectively and now I am middle age. But it was great to watch the series. I watched it on PBS when it aired and borrowed the VHS videos from the Philadelphia Public Library.
This surpasses many science documentaries today with it's content. I truly appreciate the upload of these series. I hope Cal Tech is working on a modern version of this series.
We looked at this series when our children were teenagers. They were all interested. Now I'm hoping their children will discover this beautiful production. Yes, thank you Caltech. Thank you Drs. Goodstein and Blinn.
I have discovered this show just now in 2020 August. As an avid college student during 80's, I wish we had these back then. Its amazing what beautiful pedagogical tools are available today. To a curious mind, they are just addictive. Though I am not sure, in our world of infinite distraction, whether the youngsters today are taking advantage.
@Caltech - Thank you so much for uploading these videos. This was late night television in South Africa in the 90's. I watched this series as a teenager, and it profoundly shaped me as a person.
Thanks So Much CalTech for making these beautiful videos accessible to all. I remember them as a boy early morning on PBS here in New Hampshire. Such a well done series.
Caltech, the episodes 27th and 21th are still missing. Thanks so much for uploading the whole serie. Its something pretty positive for humanity what you have done.
Thank you so much! When this disappeared from Annenberg's website, I was so sad! Around that time I was just getting into physics at university. Thank you for bringing back this most beloved series.
It disappeared because, like many "Foundations", Annenberg became more embroiled and aligned with the politics of conceit, rather than anything resembling what used to be called "scholarship", particularly, now derisively dismissed as mere "Western learning". The "politics of conceit" emanates from the self-satisfying fantasy that a person can "know what is best" for complete strangers. An impossibility. If you can proclaim that you know what is best for yourself, hats off to you. If you proclaim the same thing for me,..., go scratch yer arse.
The computer animations showing exactly how the equations worked is how I was able to pass physics classes in the late 80's. Especially near the end when he talks about differential equations and how that applies to resonant circuits. Once you "see" it working with the computer animations, the math is easier to work out. I've been an engineer for 20 years now and I am happy to have re-discovered this great and ground-breaking series that was ahead of it's time. Binging on all episodes again!
Thank you, Cal Tech for providing these videos to the larger public on RUclips. While I did not view the entire series on PBS, I was entranced by the 3-D animations of the atom, and many other physical processes, such as electromagnetic waves. Such that, as an instructor of an applied physics course at a local technical college, I asked the librarian to purchase the entire series of VHS tapes. In my classes, I would cue up those various animations on the VHS tapes ahead of each class, to show "This is how it works" when I would press the Play button. Around that time I also visited the cottage at Cal Tech to meet some of those creators of the series. Thanks again.
I learned more from watching this series on TV than I ever learned at school. I saw it when it originally aired and never missed an episode. What a wonderful thing to be able to enjoy it again.
Oh, this brings me back to honors chemistry and physics in high school in 2007-2009. This series was dated then, but is still such good content. I'm happy CalTech put these on RUclips for even more people to watch.
As a physics and mathematics student and a working SW engineer, this series is still today one of the very best presentations on history and foundations of physics.
Loved this TV series when I was a child of ten years of age! This program got me interested in science and mathematics and opened up a new world for me! Too bad it only ran for one year, and on Saturday mornings no less, but I would get up to watch every Saturday! This is what Television was for...education!
This is such a fantastic series and a powerful pedagogical tool. The way it tells the story of accumulated knowledge over time, by building on earlier ideas and experiments and following the stories of people tackling the next set of questions, combined with clear illustrations of the underlying principles and equations, is a great model for so much of education.
Used to watch it in 1990 on TV. I wished it was available while I was in engineering college in 1980s. Dr. Goldstein was/is best still. I learned more about Carnot cycle and then Laplace transformat than while in engineering college. Great 👍
Brilliant, and thank you for making this so easy to view! :-) The whole series of videos is teaching "freshman college level" stuff for its day (and to be honest, it's amazing that even after all these years, it does a GREAT job of explaining and teaching it all despite some of the data and a few conceptual points being very outdated)... All the same, I've been binging on the whole series and enjoying it, and there's one thing that kills me here over and over again: other than the calculus (most of the maths, really) and some of the history, there's been vanishingly little in the first 31 episodes that I didn't already know pretty solidly by the time I was 8 years old. Other than the maths (as I said... and it's just because that part is so deep and takes so much practice), this is fit for 12to-14-year-olds (or precocious and super-curious 8-to-12-year-olds). Am I a mutant, or is the world's pre-university education really so badly done that more than half of the students who could easily have grasped it at age 12 (conceptually, nevermind the maths until they're ready) still don't know this stuff even after high-school?
Used to watch this in my physics class my senior year of high school 2007-2008. I really appreciate physics and mathematics. I went into the humanities but if I could do it all over again I would go into a STEM field.
This series reinforces my purpose of endless self-exploration of the Mechanical Universe just like Feynman. Best video on the history of STEM with a physics centric foucs.
Revisiting this, after first being introduced to the series 30+ years ago in high school, as a refresher before beginning a Masters in Space Studies. ✨🖖
I saw those mechanical socks on ICarly! So, CalTech is where they came from, huh? Seriously, though, I just discovered this series last night, looking for videos on gravity, ,magnetism and electricity. Been an amateur (uneducated, no college degree, no mathematics background) cosmologist for years. Watched and listened to a few episodes, have now backed up to the beginning. This series, I feel, is going to change me. Thank you, CalTech.
I started watching this while going to engineering school and getting my BSME. I always liked the animated representations of calculus and mechanical systems, especially vibrating systems where the forcing frequency approaches the natural frequency driving amplitude to infinity and the system exploding. That's a particularly good one.
This series is amazingly instructional AND entertaining, it segues from point to point so smoothly - and often in subtle funny ways - that it's truly endearing; and it shows just the right historical figures and event from about the time the series was made to the time of the Classical Greeks and everything in between - spot on. Thank you so very much Annenberg and Stanford, and keep it a 'Free' - the pay off is to society and every one who becomes more Western Enlightened and perhaps even becomes a scientist through the joy of what you've shown us. 🙂
When he said 'sometimes, although very rarely, the result is as important as the value of charge in an electron', I cried a little. This is the best thing I am watching 😭
Anyone know where we can purchase the background music used in this programme? All that is posted in the credits is "Music [by] Sharon Smith, Herb Jimmerson". The music does help to the ambience of the series. *(Please upvote this if anyone has the info and so that others can find it easily. Thank You.)*
@@lavjoshi6170 Memorizing the specific dates that historical events take place on isn't very useful, but schools often put a significant focus on it because it's something you can easily put on a test. Students will remember the number long enough to use it to answer a question on an exam, then their brain will discard it as useless information and in the end they won't have really learned anything. Rote memorization of dates and events doesn't help students develop any true understanding, it mostly just helps them develop a disinterest in studying history.
Guys, a tip: If you feel the pace is going too slow, put the speed at 1.25 or 1.5. It's fast enough that you don't get bored and slow enough to keep up.
At 8:38, the projectile is fired out of the cannon, but the rotation of the Earth either toward or away from said cannon is not accounted for in the animation. I think it should be, since it is presumed to be there.
Very nice, I still have the hard bound Textbooks for both series on my bookshelf. A Classic. Teaching Calculus using Integration and then Derivatives.. like they were "invented" historically is far more compelling. Sad to hear Tom Apostol passed away, his Calculus textbooks are hard to find, but better than anything on the market.
l absolutely LOVE this show! l still have the VHS set. The sole reason why l still have my VCR. Friends would say "why do you still have VHS?" To watch "Mechanical Universe" l'd replay. They'd say "Whaaa?".........l'd say Nevermind!
It would have been great if the videos were in a higher resolution. Since the series is (was) available on DVD, it's easy to scale it up to a higher resolution.
This is going for Indians as we have the least practical study all from books...I cleared jee after this...this a good luck charm or the knowledge in it !!
Just found out David L. Goodstein passed away in April 10, 2024. I was just re-watching the episode 9 - Moving in circles(just for fun). I googled his name to see how he's doing, and . . . he passed a month ago!
I remember seeing an episode here, and episode there, back in the 1980s. I'd see them on the local San Diego info channel! I don't remember if I got around to trying to email him. I often note that Arthur C. Clarke passed before I could get around to posting something on a social media platform like facebook or twitter or something like that! I remember finding a connection between some interesting hunter/gatherer numerology which proves Jacob Bronowski ideas of knowledge in his "Origins of Knowledge and Imagination." I found it in David Barrow's "Pi in the Sky" chapter 2(worth the price of the book!). I wanted to show David Barrow this; but, as it turned out, he passed a few weeks before I made this connection. Seems I keep doing this. I google a guy, and try to show my new ideas, only to find . . . too late! Well, I include my connections between David Barrows findings and Jacob Bronowski's ideas in my Gospel of Truth - Mathematics as the Holistic Viewpoint, which I wanted to share with David L. Goodstein as well!
Topnotch Education!, what a shame with so few watching, where is all the focus, curiosity and energy, we need to create a better world? suspect the digitalisation is very erosive in many respects and hinders many in living up to their possibilities. Fantastic series to be promoted to all highschoolstudents so they have a solid 101 in physics and maybe catalyses their careers.
Can the Mechanical Universe High School Adaptation be available too? It's useful for high school classes -- a 28 minute video can be a good chunk of class time (HS adaptation is 15 minutes), and it is more condensed for the learning level. This would be more valuable for many HS classes!
This show is one of the reasons I am a Scientist and Engineer today. You guys seriously need to get it digitally remastered and sell it to a streaming service ASAP. It is solid gold for learning and was one of the shows that demonstrated the power of weaving together the history of Science and Engineering with the actual Mathematics and Physics.
I discovered this show well after I completed engineering school. All of these things I read and learned from books (while doing the accompanying homework!). It is so cool to find it after all this time to be able to show to people. I consider this "just the lectures" but it is not in any way a substitute for a proper rigorous education in the physical sciences. That being said, philosophy of science should be required for engineers given where all of us end up after thinking for long enough. Lab work and home work are needed! I agree 100% with your comment.
That's what they did, it is on a streaming service already.
@@baconology3065 so do you guys have any advice for a 25 yo who was pretty good at maths at first but then came a secondary school and both maths and physics became a huge problem and who wants to give it another try now? Any good books, lectures?
@@dgandgdeye: It's basically too late for you unfortunately! You're too old. You must have at least alot of math abilities in high school(U.S.) beginning at about age 15!
@@roberttelarket4934 It's not too late what are you talking about. If he works hard he could get a sucessful career in some field related to science by 30.f
At this point the field that takes the less work to make decent money is computer programming. Entry level jobs won't be close to science but over time you can specialize towards simulation, graphics, interplay of logic topology and automata, graph theory, homotopy type theory, category theory, lambda calculus, etc.
Watched this as a kid. Today I have masters degree in engineering :) This series left huge impact on me.
Engineering? Why not physics or theoretical physics bcs all the physicist from galileo to einstein were theoretical physicist
Like wise
Most engineering disciplines are applied physics to solve the problems facing humanity and bring about solutions in the form of new technologies.
15 years old me who wants to be a scientist, do I have a chance?
@@justarandomdude.9285 If you study hard enough anything is possible.
Ah yes, I've been searching for this a long time. Back in 1986 I could never have imagined watching the series on a phone while sitting on a mountain top.
We mathematicians knew in the 1960s that viewing on some device something like this would be realized sooner or later!
@@roberttelarket4934 "Hard times create Strong men . Strong men create good times ." Our new generation stands on the shoulder of hard workers of previous ones . it is all thanks to our parents and their unending efforts that we can see this day .
thanks
@@Mayank-mf7xr Good times create weak men.
It's been on the Internet for about 15 years. I found it on Google videos back in the day. Must have watched them all 10 times over.
Dam am walking & thinking alike for my next age! Dam you earth it feels all like a digital reality lol hope it does if ai & others are not do crazy & ADHD war clouds? Humans over built up steem balance ♎⚖️ on devices amounts around you! % life
Loved this series in the 80s. Got a MS in physics in the 90s. Even met the professor:) The best physics videos to this day!
I watched this while in High school. I never had the math skills to keep up with the equations, but the show gave me a greater understanding of the physics behind much of our world. I still remember the terminology, and even if I still don't know the math I can still carry on a conversation with the engineers I work with. Thank you for giving me this knowledge and all for free.
I watched it while getting my BS in math. Great series, but was on at 4:30 or 5am. Yikes.
My children grew up with these videos. I taped them from the TV and we would watch them together. Now my grandchildren are beginning to benefit from these gems. Thank you.
Don't ever leave me again "Mechanical Universe" series!!!
Cal Tech students give zero shits about copyright lmao
One of the greatest educational series ever made. A tremendous motivational learning tool when I was in engineering school. I just stumbled upon it again and it brought back fond memories of why I wanted to be an engineer at the time.
I first saw these videos back in 1986...they were of the best ever made to that time......I still believe after all of this time, they are still the best. Every physics and science student should view these and old teachers like myself...as well..lol So wonderfully done and have stood the test of time so well.
I was home schooling my Kids during the mid-1990s. Lisa, Vicky and Shirley are 37, 36, and, 35 respectively and now I am middle age. But it was great to watch the series. I watched it on PBS when it aired and borrowed the VHS videos from the Philadelphia Public Library.
This surpasses many science documentaries today with it's content. I truly appreciate the upload of these series. I hope Cal Tech is working on a modern version of this series.
We looked at this series when our children were teenagers. They were all interested. Now I'm hoping their children will discover this beautiful production. Yes, thank you Caltech. Thank you Drs. Goodstein and Blinn.
Have been waiting a long time (since high school in the 80's) to watch these again. Best narration.
I have discovered this show just now in 2020 August. As an avid college student during 80's, I wish we had these back then. Its amazing what beautiful pedagogical tools are available today. To a curious mind, they are just addictive. Though I am not sure, in our world of infinite distraction, whether the youngsters today are taking advantage.
Show was responsible for my love of science. Wonderful series. I didn't get all of it during junior high but I was addicted nonetheless.
@Caltech - Thank you so much for uploading these videos. This was late night television in South Africa in the 90's. I watched this series as a teenager, and it profoundly shaped me as a person.
Thanks So Much CalTech for making these beautiful videos accessible to all. I remember them as a boy early morning on PBS here in New Hampshire. Such a well done series.
RIP Dr. Goodstein, and thank you for sharing your wisdom with us. 😢
Used to watch this on PBS in the 1980s and 1990s. It was great.
Caltech, the episodes 27th and 21th are still missing. Thanks so much for uploading the whole serie. Its something pretty positive for humanity what you have done.
Good news; 21 and 27 appear to be in the list now.
Not anymore, 21 and 27 are now available.
Thank you so much! When this disappeared from Annenberg's website, I was so sad! Around that time I was just getting into physics at university. Thank you for bringing back this most beloved series.
It disappeared because, like many "Foundations", Annenberg became more embroiled and aligned with the politics of conceit, rather than anything resembling what used to be called "scholarship", particularly, now derisively dismissed as mere "Western learning". The "politics of conceit" emanates from the self-satisfying fantasy that a person can "know what is best" for complete strangers. An impossibility. If you can proclaim that you know what is best for yourself, hats off to you. If you proclaim the same thing for me,..., go scratch yer arse.
Thank you for uploading this series, I'd never seen these programmes before.
A buyer purchased my set of all 52 Mechanical Universe episodes on the 12-inch laserdisc format. Glad they found a new owner.
I love that @11:55, in the cartoon animation of David and Goliath, the role of David is played by Professor David Goodstein.
The computer animations showing exactly how the equations worked is how I was able to pass physics classes in the late 80's. Especially near the end when he talks about differential equations and how that applies to resonant circuits. Once you "see" it working with the computer animations, the math is easier to work out. I've been an engineer for 20 years now and I am happy to have re-discovered this great and ground-breaking series that was ahead of it's time. Binging on all episodes again!
Thank you, Cal Tech for providing these videos to the larger public on RUclips.
While I did not view the entire series on PBS, I was entranced by the 3-D animations of the atom, and many other physical processes, such as electromagnetic waves.
Such that, as an instructor of an applied physics course at a local technical college, I asked the librarian to purchase the entire series of VHS tapes.
In my classes, I would cue up those various animations on the VHS tapes ahead of each class, to show "This is how it works" when I would press the Play button.
Around that time I also visited the cottage at Cal Tech to meet some of those creators of the series. Thanks again.
I learned more from watching this series on TV than I ever learned at school. I saw it when it originally aired and never missed an episode. What a wonderful thing to be able to enjoy it again.
I use the VHS (!) edition in my physics classes. Just happened to find this cleaned up edition here on RUclips, excellent series.
Oh, this brings me back to honors chemistry and physics in high school in 2007-2009. This series was dated then, but is still such good content. I'm happy CalTech put these on RUclips for even more people to watch.
As a physics and mathematics student and a working SW engineer, this series is still today one of the very best presentations on history and foundations of physics.
Yes! And it was and is still inspiring.
Glad these are available again!
Quite possibly the number 1 learning series....period!
Thanks a bunch for the upload 😀
This is solid gold. Should be reworked in HiRes!
I used to watch this back in the 1980s before going to work. Good thing I recorded them on VHS back then! Excellent series!
I used to watch this all the time on KCSM TV. One of the best series ever.
Thank you so much for adding these! This is my favorite series ever!
I am going to binge-watch this series all weekend!
Awesome ! I used to watch this with my dad when I was young 🤓
I remember watching these back in the early '90s. Thanks for uploading this great series!
I was hooked on this series long before my Statics. Prof. made it required viewing. Absolutely the best.
Great science series. I recommend this to anyone wanting to study basic physics. 🎓
Loved this TV series when I was a child of ten years of age! This program got me interested in science and mathematics and opened up a new world for me! Too bad it only ran for one year, and on Saturday mornings no less, but I would get up to watch every Saturday! This is what Television was for...education!
This is such a fantastic series and a powerful pedagogical tool. The way it tells the story of accumulated knowledge over time, by building on earlier ideas and experiments and following the stories of people tackling the next set of questions, combined with clear illustrations of the underlying principles and equations, is a great model for so much of education.
Thank you for uploading this treasure!
I loved this when I was young...I am so glad to find it again...Thank You!
Used to watch it in 1990 on TV. I wished it was available while I was in engineering college in 1980s. Dr. Goldstein was/is best still. I learned more about Carnot cycle and then Laplace transformat than while in engineering college.
Great 👍
The first time I watched this program was on The Learning Channel when my family first got cable in the early 80's
Brilliant, and thank you for making this so easy to view! :-)
The whole series of videos is teaching "freshman college level" stuff for its day (and to be honest, it's amazing that even after all these years, it does a GREAT job of explaining and teaching it all despite some of the data and a few conceptual points being very outdated)...
All the same, I've been binging on the whole series and enjoying it, and there's one thing that kills me here over and over again: other than the calculus (most of the maths, really) and some of the history, there's been vanishingly little in the first 31 episodes that I didn't already know pretty solidly by the time I was 8 years old.
Other than the maths (as I said... and it's just because that part is so deep and takes so much practice), this is fit for 12to-14-year-olds (or precocious and super-curious 8-to-12-year-olds).
Am I a mutant, or is the world's pre-university education really so badly done that more than half of the students who could easily have grasped it at age 12 (conceptually, nevermind the maths until they're ready) still don't know this stuff even after high-school?
Used to watch this in my physics class my senior year of high school 2007-2008. I really appreciate physics and mathematics. I went into the humanities but if I could do it all over again I would go into a STEM field.
my physics class watched an episode before every unit to give an overview of the concept
I appreciate him doing this
This series reinforces my purpose of endless self-exploration of the Mechanical Universe just like Feynman. Best video on the history of STEM with a physics centric foucs.
Saw these episodes on PBS - taped every one of them down on VHS.
Thanks Caltech, we need more series like that. From Colombia
This show is amazing. I loved it since I was in high school.
Revisiting this, after first being introduced to the series 30+ years ago in high school, as a refresher before beginning a Masters in Space Studies. ✨🖖
THANK YOU, CALTECH! BLESS YOUR MECHANICAL SOCKS!
I saw those mechanical socks on ICarly! So, CalTech is where they came from, huh? Seriously, though, I just discovered this series last night, looking for videos on gravity, ,magnetism and electricity. Been an amateur (uneducated, no college degree, no mathematics background) cosmologist for years. Watched and listened to a few episodes, have now backed up to the beginning. This series, I feel, is going to change me. Thank you, CalTech.
CLOCKS not SOCKS!
I started watching this while going to engineering school and getting my BSME. I always liked the animated representations of calculus and mechanical systems, especially vibrating systems where the forcing frequency approaches the natural frequency driving amplitude to infinity and the system exploding. That's a particularly good one.
Thank you!! I have been a big fan all my life.
my new favourite anime
@@thebirdhasbeencharged no spoilers pls
@@___xyz___ There's a fight at the end between Einstein and Newton. Turns out they were using only 10% of their true power
@@LuisSierra42 It's how Fig Newtons were invented
i liked the max planck arc though . he was the most overpowered villain ever
thankful to have stumbled upon this thread
well done caltech!
This series is amazingly instructional AND entertaining, it segues from point to point so smoothly - and often in subtle funny ways - that it's truly endearing; and it shows just the right historical figures and event from about the time the series was made to the time of the Classical Greeks and everything in between - spot on. Thank you so very much Annenberg and Stanford, and keep it a 'Free' - the pay off is to society and every one who becomes more Western Enlightened and perhaps even becomes a scientist through the joy of what you've shown us. 🙂
When he said 'sometimes, although very rarely, the result is as important as the value of charge in an electron', I cried a little. This is the best thing I am watching 😭
Anyone know where we can purchase the background music used in this programme? All that is posted in the credits is "Music [by] Sharon Smith, Herb Jimmerson". The music does help to the ambience of the series.
*(Please upvote this if anyone has the info and so that others can find it easily. Thank You.)*
Have you ever found it?
@@amfazzam Sorry, but no one has given out the info yet.
If only we could show this as part of our education system instead of remembering the dates of world wars.
And why not remember the dates of world wars?
@@lavjoshi6170 Memorizing the specific dates that historical events take place on isn't very useful, but schools often put a significant focus on it because it's something you can easily put on a test. Students will remember the number long enough to use it to answer a question on an exam, then their brain will discard it as useless information and in the end they won't have really learned anything. Rote memorization of dates and events doesn't help students develop any true understanding, it mostly just helps them develop a disinterest in studying history.
Thanks for posting this series.
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Amazing how many people say that this series inspired them to have a career in science...
These videos should have more views, they are awesome, greetings from Colombia
Guys, a tip:
If you feel the pace is going too slow,
put the speed at 1.25 or 1.5. It's fast enough that you don't get bored and slow enough to keep up.
I recommend c
I recommend ⏪
If you need to fast forward, you're not challenging yourself enough. Try MIT's physics 801 lectures from Walter Lewyn.
I'm using 1.25x to finish them all under 20 hours.
Watched this with my High School son over the summer. He took Physics this year...getting A's across the board.
A cup of tea by night , here we go , lets start this beautiful serie
This is such a great series! Glad I am watching it again.
Before the advent of RUclips, I had a website bookmarked to access the series.
"Discovery of The Calculus" - that's classic!
At 8:38, the projectile is fired out of the cannon, but the rotation of the Earth either toward or away from said cannon is not accounted for in the animation. I think it should be, since it is presumed to be there.
Wild, I remember watching this as a kid. As with others who have mentioned it's influence, I work in the sciences today.
Very nice, I still have the hard bound Textbooks for both series on my bookshelf. A Classic. Teaching Calculus using Integration and then Derivatives.. like they were "invented" historically is far more compelling. Sad to hear Tom Apostol passed away, his Calculus textbooks are hard to find, but better than anything on the market.
Joey: Apostol book is OK but the best is not very well known and also scarce from the mid-1960s: Calculus of One Variable by Joseph Kitchen.
Loved this. I was still in college when I saw on tv.
Watch this as a child, loved it
I so loved these videos when i was in college.
thank you caltech
Thanks for uploading!
I watch this serie once a year!
David Louis Goodstein (April 5, 1939 - April 10, 2024)
I just looked up the professor....he just recently died.... RIP 🙏🏽
I have been trying to find history of science videos for over a year….get this out!!
I'm a nobody who did nothing with his life but I still love this show.
Thank you! Would you post the "Project mathematics" series too?
How the hell have only just heard of this series now!, its amazing.
This is the greatest series that i seen.
Not woke enough. Needs more blacks, gays and trans...
@@afonsodeportugal it lacks the ukrainian flag
@@Amine-gz7gq That too!
l absolutely LOVE this show! l still have the VHS set. The sole reason why l still have my VCR. Friends would say "why do you still have VHS?" To watch "Mechanical Universe" l'd replay. They'd say "Whaaa?".........l'd say Nevermind!
My middle school science teacher used to show us these videos all the time.
This series was wonderful...
It would have been great if the videos were in a higher resolution. Since the series is (was) available on DVD, it's easy to scale it up to a higher resolution.
This is going for Indians as we have the least practical study all from books...I cleared jee after this...this a good luck charm or the knowledge in it !!
Those students are today in 2019 between 50 and 55.
depressing... as this would be me.
Just found out David L. Goodstein passed away in April 10, 2024. I was just re-watching the episode 9 - Moving in circles(just for fun). I googled his name to see how he's doing, and . . . he passed a month ago!
I remember seeing an episode here, and episode there, back in the 1980s. I'd see them on the local San Diego info channel!
I don't remember if I got around to trying to email him. I often note that Arthur C. Clarke passed before I could get around to posting something on a social media platform like facebook or twitter or something like that!
I remember finding a connection between some interesting hunter/gatherer numerology which proves Jacob Bronowski ideas of knowledge in his "Origins of Knowledge and Imagination." I found it in David Barrow's "Pi in the Sky" chapter 2(worth the price of the book!). I wanted to show David Barrow this; but, as it turned out, he passed a few weeks before I made this connection.
Seems I keep doing this. I google a guy, and try to show my new ideas, only to find . . . too late!
Well, I include my connections between David Barrows findings and Jacob Bronowski's ideas in my Gospel of Truth - Mathematics as the Holistic Viewpoint, which I wanted to share with David L. Goodstein as well!
THIS IS GOLD>!!!!
Wow. I wanna study in Caltech!!!
Topnotch Education!,
what a shame with so few watching,
where is all the focus, curiosity and energy,
we need to create a better world? suspect the digitalisation is very erosive in many respects and hinders many in living up to their possibilities.
Fantastic series to be promoted to all highschoolstudents so they have a solid 101 in physics and maybe catalyses their careers.
This man has entered my list of elite professor. Him, Jordan B. Peterson and my guy Martin Hunter.
Can the Mechanical Universe High School Adaptation be available too? It's useful for high school classes -- a 28 minute video can be a good chunk of class time (HS adaptation is 15 minutes), and it is more condensed for the learning level. This would be more valuable for many HS classes!
I wish i'd found this earlier