What I Learned from the Mechanical Universe

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Apr 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aps..aprp13001g&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, April Meeting, April 29-May 2, 2000 Long Beach, CA, abstract #P13.001

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The Mechanical Universe, completed in 1987 at a cost of $10 million, is a 52 part television series designed to teach introductory physics at the university level. It has been shown countless times and still pops up on PBS and cable stations, it's still widely used in American colleges and high schools, and all or parts of it have been translated into at least 13 other languages. Given the millions of people it's reached, one can only hope that someone has learned a little physics from it. What I've learned from it is another story. Television production, the PBS system, Distance Learning, and the Physics Education Establishment are just a few of the worlds I would never have encountered without the experience of making The Mechanical Universe. Now that at least some people think the Internet will be an important part of the future of education, this might be a good opportunity to look back at the lessons learned from an earlier attempt to bring technology to bear on the process of teaching physics.

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