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Why Is It So?()

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Seasons: 3
Episodes: 46

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Julius Sumner Miller
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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 15
E01
The Idea of the Center of Gravity

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All of the weight of an object is at its center of gravity, says Miller. However, the center of gravity is not alway...

E02
Newton's First Law of Motion-Inertia

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Newton's First Law has two parts, and Professor Miller does his best to teach them together. His demonstrations incl...

E03
3. Newton's Second Law of Motion – The Elevator Problem

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F=ma is the standard shorthand for Newton's Second Law. But Professor Miller shows more depth, using two toy cars ac...

E04
Newton's Third Law of Motion – Momentum

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The Earth must recoil when Professor Miller jumps. It's the first of many illustrations that confirm, ""To every act...

E05
Energy and Momentum

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From the outset, Miller emphasizes the difference between energy and momentum, first with the toy cars and then with ...

E06
Concerning Falling Bodies and Projectiles

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Laws of motion and energy, discussed in earlier programs, converge in the real and virtual demonstrations Miller does...

E07
The Simple Pendulum and Other Oscillating Things

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Anything can be a pendulum, says Professor Miller, and anything can oscillate. In fact, the period of a pendulum dep...

E08
Adventures with Bernoulli

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A family of 120 bore the name Bernoulli, and they were all geniuses. Miller points out how the Bernoulli principle a...

E09
Soap Bubbles and Soap Films

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Miller's experiments on soap films show the pressure on soap bubbles, plus the fact that soap films always form a sur...

E10
Atmospheric Pressure – The Properties of Gases

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The atmosphere exerts an enormous force (15 pounds of pressure per square inch). Miller crushes steel cans, ruptures...

E11
Centrifugal Force and Other Strange Matters

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Miller writes ""centrifugal"" in quotation marks because there is no force acting radially on rotating bodies. Balls...

E12
The Strange Behavior of Rolling Things

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All hoops roll alike, says Miller, and all disks beat all hoops when they race downhill. Thus Miller sends disks, ho...

E13
Archimedes' Principle

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When a body is submerged in a liquid, it buoys up with a force equal to the weight of the liquid displaced. Miller s...

E14
Pascal's Principle – The Properties of Liquids

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Blaise Pascal said liquids are incompressible. Any force exerted on a liquid is felt in all parts of the liquid with...

E15
Levers, Inclined Planes, Geared-Wheels and Other Simple Machines

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With a great many tools before him, Professor Miller sets out to prove that all tools and machines are linked to the ...