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Art, culture and society CHRISTMAS LECTURES Maths Physics Technology and engineering

Exploring music – Science, strings and symphonies (1989)

All stringed instruments need to have their sound amplified, Charles Taylor explores how flat plates and hollow bodies work in

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Video Charles Taylor holding a large red metal rod, with children smiling in th ebackground of the Ri theatre
Art, culture and society CHRISTMAS LECTURES Maths Physics Technology and engineering

Exploring music – The essence of an instrument (1989)

Charles Taylor investigates the essential features that have to be present in any instrument, if a usable musical sound is to be

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Video Charles Taylor using a machine to blow up a balloon, with a child in the Ri theatre
Art, culture and society CHRISTMAS LECTURES Maths Physics Technology and engineering

Exploring music – What is music? (1989)

Charles Taylor asks whether some sounds musical and others just noise?

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Video John Meurig Thomas pointing at a projection of an x-ray
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Crystals and lasers – Crystals, lasers and the human body (1987)

Laser technology is being used in medicine to investigate, diagnose and cure. David Phillips shows us the different uses of

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Video David Phillips speaking in the Ri theatre
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Crystals and lasers – Constructing a laser (1987)

How do you amplify light with the stimulated emission of radiation? In this lecture, David Phillips shows us step by step how to

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Video John Meurig Thomas speaking in the Ri theatre
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Crystals and lasers – Semiconductors, superconductors and catalysts (1987)

Levitating with superconductors, charging with semiconductors and combusting with catalysts. John Meurig Thomas demonstrates the

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Crystals and lasers – The architecture of crystals (1987)

What does a crystal look like up close? John Meurig Thomas uses optical and electron diffraction to reveal the crystal

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Video A little robot
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Communicating – Computers (1985)

Computers were first created as calculating machines for the manipulation of numbers.

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Video A woman's eye
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Communicating – The integrated body (1985)

The body consists of many different organs each composed of enormous numbers of living cells.

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Video a red laser
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Communicating – The pace of technology (1985)

Communication is so important that we often want to do it quickly and over long distances.

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