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Overview
1968: Camper
1970: Moving charges
1970: OU Maths
1970: Film producers
1970: FOCUS
1971: First Order Reactions
1971: Reactions
1971: Syntactic Dominoes
1971: Square Well
1971: Tomorrow's World
1968-75: Galaxy Evolution
1971: Symposium
1972: When polar bears swam the Thames
1972: Aerial Synthesis
1973-81: Eilbeck
1973: Physex 2
1973: HPD Queue
1974: Orbits in a Hyperbolic Well
1973-75: Galaxies
1975: PIGS
1975: Serpents Egg
1975: Finite Elements
1976: Alien

Orbits in a Hyperbolic Well

Prof E Mendoza

1974

Professor Mendoza was interested in the use of educational technology in physics teaching. He was mainly responsible for reforming the physics syllabus at Manchester and later at the University College of North Wales in Bangor. He taught at the University of Bangor between 1964 and 1972 then moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His research interests included the history of 19th century thermodynamics and kinetic theory and the relevance of that history to physics teaching. He constructed computer programs designed for use by the lecturer to illustrate points in the lecture (not for use by students privately). Mostly they illustrated processes difficult to describe in words. His interest in computer animation as a tool in teaching grew out of that.

This film introduces a hyperbolic well and experiments with the common claim that the orbits of the rolling marble are the same as the Kepler orbits for planets revolving around the sun.

Orbits in a Hyperbolic Well
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