Episode 33: Electric Circuits - The Mechanical Universe

Episode 33. Electric Circuits: The work of Wheatstone, Ohm, and Kirchhoff leads to the design and analysis of how current flows.
“The Mechanical Universe,” is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course.
Each program in the series opens and closes with Caltech Professor David Goodstein providing philosophical, historical and often humorous insight into the subject at hand while lecturing to his freshman physics class. The series contains hundreds of computer animation segments, created by Dr. James F. Blinn, as the primary tool of instruction. Dynamic location footage and historical re-creations are also used to stress the fact that science is a human endeavor.
The series was originally produced as a broadcast telecourse in 1985 by Caltech and Intelecom, Inc. with program funding from the Annenberg/CPB Project.
The online version of the series is sponsored by the Information Science and Technology initiative at Caltech. ist.caltech.edu
©1985 California Institute of Technology, The Corporation for Community College Television, and The Annenberg/CPB Project

[@paulpfeiffer184]

Thank you caltech for bringing these videos back. These are classic well made videos that stand the test of time and deserve to be in the public domain.

[@petercudmore8608]

Agreed some of the best resources out there. As far as educational videos go these were the gold standard. I would love to have an updated modern version for my classes. (as much fun as it is for students to laugh at what we looked like in the 80s)

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

👍🐣

[@bourne3106]

First time for me in UK, very impressed

[@franciscoantoniomoralesher2934]

A remake of this serie would be wonderful.

[@oker59]

they need to do more cosmology/particle physics. They do some, so little, it's hard to tell for the uninitiated.

[@carlasouza5194]

@@oker59 include nuclear too

[@Abhi-2468]

I thought to make it will you watch it ?

[@BilgeElitok]

He has a great sense of humour!

[@douglasstrother6584]

One could make a lot of ham & cheese sandwiches from Dr. Goodstein's humor!
He's a punny man.

[@zeyuanluo9707]

Great video! Very intuitive.

[@yi-feiliu5959]

JPL takes a leading role in deep space exploration. One of the founders of JPL(Hsue-shen Tsien, a student of Theodore von Kármán) is also the founder of my alma mater.

[@alikaperdue]

@17:20 - resistance is defined as impurities in the material. But I think resistance is a property of the material itself.
I don't doubt that impurities may change resistance, but is that what resistance is?

[@SciHeartJourney]

RIP Dr. Goodstein. 😥

[@wuzhenick]

I wish I attended these lectures while I was in college.

[@blasbelchiromero7530]

Nuii I am in college and I have to do a resume, if you like the video you can do a resume of the video of around 150 words, thanks if you do it would be very good for me and for my class. :)

[@chancebutler6472]

This is gold

[@stanleycates1972]

Fun review. A working EE needs ohm's laws imbedded in his head just like his name, for quick analyses of a circuit and how changing I,E,L,C or R would effect that circuit or system. BTW, I have the books from years ago with underlines and highlights all over the place. No mention of my hero Faraday discovering magnetic induction creating an isolated from the source circuit?

[@stanleycates1972]

@@mikeecsedy6300 My hero because he was a poor mathematician. I get by with equations worked out by others :)

[@eliteteamkiller319]

@Gökçe Got to read the textbooks man. Over and over. Do the problems over and over.

[@goosew3266]

This is so annoying. Whoever put the Annenberg Media logo at the front of these videos really made a mistake. It throws the whole audio off the video. I have watched these lectures more than once, so I know there was not always this Annenberg Media introduction. Can someone please put it back to what it was?

[@jesugomez9918]

Somebody please make a resume of the video.

[@blasbelchiromero7530]

Chusolin yes, it would be very good. The resume of around 150 words thanks

[@Jesus-hb5ny]

Pásamelo porfa

[@bel916]

@@Jesus-hb5ny I don't speak Spanish only English

[@Darthvanger]

@@Jesus-hb5ny xD

[@lavenderriven3050]

Why is Sir Charles Wheatstone displayed as Gustav Kirchhoff?

[@carlasouza5194]

Prof Goodstein, you look gooooooooooooooooood

[@globalcellular4909]

Hey, what about the Bagdad battery??? Possibly the first battery

[@SimpMcSimpy]

That is true but we don't anything about it except it existed long time ago.
Science community focus more on explorers who actually formalized the knowledge about certain topic.

[@ArjunGaming-op9fx]

Hi where do I watch all of these

[@iloveplasticbottles]

I can't handle the amount of electricity puns

[@lackdejuranez7084]

I thought the time constant was when the capacitor was approximately 63% charged?

[@khanyithegreat]

5 tau is 100%

[@robertott8093]

Sound and Video does not match up....

[@matthoward8546]

The electrons in a metal follow the same laws as a gass in a container...so im told.

[@chrisroberts3870]

Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb.

[@A1985]

he did
dumb dumb

[@A1985]

google it

[@samahf1669]

You are 100 % right, Lewis Howard Latimer invented light bulb.

[@StudioofPtahJewelryCoInfo]

But Thomas Edison along with J.P.Morgan and Rockerfeller did invented the impoverishment of world through the ElectricBill and global environmental pollution by suppressing the reknown of the genius level achievements that belong to the great NikolaTesla.

[@brincsterbrincster8959]

So boring. I dont want to be watching no damn computer curcuits history video during summer

[@jacksong6226]

Then don’t