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Physics: Audio & Video

A guide to the key resources for the academic study of physics.

Oral History - Physics

The Niels Bohr Library & Archives website provides access to a unique (physics-related) collection of oral history interviews.  The site contains transcriptions of several hundred interviews, along with a selection of audio clips.

The Feynman Messenger Lectures

The Messenger Lectures include videos of Dr. Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965, speaking on physics at Cornell University in 1964. He gave a series of six lectures for a general audience, which he titled The Character of Physical Law, based on his materials from his introductory physics course, The Feynman Lectures on Physics.

Foucault's Pendulum at Dartmouth College

Professor Jim LaBelle discusses the Foucault's Pendulum that swings in the atrium of the Fairchild Building on the Dartmouth campus.