Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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  • BBC Two
  • Daily 20
  • Documentary

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1983
1983x1
Machines In Motion: Driving Forces
Episode overview
In his first lecture of the series, Leonard Maunder explores the kinematics that make up the geometry of motion.
1983x2
Machines In Motion: Gathering Momentum
Episode overview
How do Newton's laws apply to motion both familiar and strange, from bows and arrows to rockets and gyroscopes.
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Machines In Motion: Vibration
Episode overview
We speak and hear by the vibrations of air as sound waves, but to engineers vibration can be dangerously destructive. As machines grow in size and power, their designers have to assess and counter their tendency to self-destruction.
1983x4
Machines In Motion: Under Control
Episode overview
In his fourth lecture, Leonard Maunder explores the various ways in which systems can be controlled by monitoring inputs and outputs and adding self regulation.
1983x5
Machines In Motion: Fluids and Flight
Episode overview
How is our knowledge of fluid dynamics harnessed in setting machines in motion?
1983x6
Machines In Motion: Living Machines
Episode overview
How do animals move on land, sea and in the air, and we shall look in particular at how the understanding of human locomotion contributes to the growing and important subject of biomechanics.

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