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CU Wizards On DVD

Each unique DVD, narrated by a CU professorial Wizard, focuses on an area of scientific interest. Key concepts are highlighted by audience participation and dramatic demonstrations. Use them in your classroom to spark interest, illustrate an important concept, provide a scientist role model, or to introduce a unit of study.

Topics Include:

• How Things Move - Professor John Taylor addresses the physics of forces and motion with demonstrations on gravity, acceleration, and collisions.
  
• Chemistry: Pow! Pow! - Professor Casey Hynes introduces the world of chemistry with demonstrations on color changes, chemical reactions and explosions.
  
• Clocks & Time - Professor Paul Beale teaches about clocks and time with the use of pendulums, heartbeats, tuning forks, and resonance phenomena.
  
• Chemistry of Cooking - Professor David Nesbitt illustrates how heat, temperature and pressure influence the cooking of basic food groups. See the science behind whipping egg whites, rising bread and making ice cream.
  
• Go with the Flow - Toothpaste, ketchup and water are just some of the fluids that are analyzed during the CU Wizards show "Go with the Flow”. CU Professors Janet deGrazia and Brian Argrow demonstrate the properties of fluids and reveal some amazing things that can be done with ordinary liquids.
  
• Chemistry of Life - Professor Tom Cech, Nobel Laureate, brings you the world of biochemistry with demonstrations of chemical reactions, catalysis and shapes of biomolecules.
  
• Liquid Crystals - Professors Dave Walba, Noel Clark and Joe Maclennon demonstrate how wave properties of light, molecular organization of matter, and color concepts combine to reveal the secrets of liquid crystals devices.
  
• Physics of Sports - Professor Jim Faller addresses the physics of sports by answering questions such as why hockey sticks are curved, the importance of arch in making a basketball shot, and the role of hand-shape in freestyle swimming.
  
• Lasers & Light - Professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn demonstrate how lasers can be used to transmit information and how water and optical fibers can be used to guide laser light. They also illustrate the use of strobe lights, laser cutting, and other fun and interesting experiments.
  
• Chemistry of Light - Professor Kathy Rowlen opens the fascinating world of the physics of chemistry and light by explaining how fireflies glow, why fireworks are such brilliant colors, and why crushing lifesavers in your mouth can generate green flashes.
• Speed!!! Professor Eric Cornell explores the speed of objects, light and sound with engaging demonstrations, which include measuring both the speed of a thrown baseball and the speed of sound through a 500-foot-long plastic tube. Also, watch carefully to see some of the world's slowest animals!

Cost: Set of 11 DVDs and curriculum guides for $170. Individual DVDs and curriculum guides $20 each (prices include shipping). A nonrefundable deposit of $5 for single DVDs and $10 for multiple DVDs is required.

Limited VHS also available.

To Order: Call the Science From CU office 303-492-8640 or email sfcu@colorado.edu.

CU Wizards On DVD has been made possible by a grant from the Outreach Council, University of Colorado at Boulder.