Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering The engineer through the looking glass – The time has come the Walrus said (1974) Eric Laithwaite uses the concept of analogies (fairy stories) as a way to explain complex topics in science including objects The engineer through the looking glass – The time has come the Walrus said (1974) Read more
Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering The engineer through the looking glass – The Jabberwock (1974) In this controversial Lecture, Laithwaite used behavioural gyroscopes in an attempt to challenge the validity of Newton’s Laws The engineer through the looking glass – The Jabberwock (1974) Read more
Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering The engineer through the looking glass – Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow (1974) Through the title of this third lecture and the theme of chess running through Alice's adventures, Eric Laithwaite introduces The engineer through the looking glass – Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow (1974) Read more
Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering The engineer through the looking glass – Tweedledum and Tweedledee (1974) Taking Lewis Carrol’s twins as his starting point for his second lecture, Eric Laithwaite explores the principles of symmetry in The engineer through the looking glass – Tweedledum and Tweedledee (1974) Read more
Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering The engineer through the looking glass – Looking glass house (1974) Eric Laithwaite explores the concept of 'reflection', from concepts of the smallest particle to those of the whole universe. The engineer through the looking glass – Looking glass house (1974) Read more
Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Gulliver's travels – Beyond the map (1968) By working with scales, we have seen that the laws of mechanics and electricity are not the only laws of physics. In the last of Gulliver's travels – Beyond the map (1968) Read more
Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Maths Physics Gulliver's travels – Dwarf and giant numbers (1968) From the arithmetic of ratios to the science of numbers themselves, Philip Morrison explores the importance of small and large Gulliver's travels – Dwarf and giant numbers (1968) Read more
Video CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering Gulliver's travels – Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the industrial revolution (1968) Philip Morrison asks what our technology would look like if we were the size of men in Gulliver's voyages? Gulliver's travels – Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the industrial revolution (1968) Read more
Video Biology and the human body CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Gulliver's travels – A prodigious leap? (1968) Philip Morrison studies the walking, running, floating, and swimming, by large animals and small, and in man-made vehicles of Gulliver's travels – A prodigious leap? (1968) Read more
Video Biology and the human body CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Gulliver's travels – Meat and drink sufficient for 1728 Lilliputians (1968) Could Gulliver have eaten the food of 1728 Lilliputians? Philip Morrison explores big and small systems, using mice, men and Gulliver's travels – Meat and drink sufficient for 1728 Lilliputians (1968) Read more
