3: Wind | How Earth Made Us

Duration: 58'52''

Synopsis

Professor Iain Stewart sets sail on one of the fastest racing boats ever built to explore the story of our turbulent relationship with the wind.

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BBC Two | 2010 | 4'36''

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BBC Two | 2010 | 4'37''

Iain Stewart explores the natural phenomenon of groundwater.

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BBC Two | 2010 | 2'32''

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BBC Two | 2010 | 1'50''

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Monsoon | How Earth Made Us

Monsoon | How Earth Made Us

BBC Two | 2010 | 1'15''

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Mud volcano, Indonesia | How Earth Made Us

Mud volcano, Indonesia | How Earth Made Us

BBC Two | 2010 | 4'38''

Professor Iain Stewart investigates a mud volcano in Indonesia that was caused by human interactions with the earth.

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BBC Two | 2010 | 3'37''

Professor Iain Stewart explains how sediment becomes rock and thus how plastic waste will impact future rock.

Tar sands | How Earth Made Us

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BBC Two | 2010 | 3'40''

Professor Iain Stewart discusses tar sands, one of the more complicated ways of extracting oil.

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The River Nile and early agriculture | How Earth Made Us

BBC Two | 2010 | 5'15''

Iain Stewart explains the important role that the Nile played in early Egyptian agriculture.

The water cycle | How Earth Made Us

The water cycle | How Earth Made Us

BBC Two | 2010 | 3'10''

Dr Iain Stewart explains the different stages of the water cycle.

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Acceleration | Additional Science 1

Acceleration | Additional Science 1

BBC Two | 2010 | 50'''

Spec references J249: P2.1h J250: P2.1h. Calculating acceleration and what the units mean - description and animation.

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01: Speed Limits | Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds

BBC HD | 2010 | 58'56''

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BBC One | 2016 | 58'35''

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CBBC | 2003 | 1'33''

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Distance-time graphs | Additional Science 1

Distance-time graphs | Additional Science 1

BBC Two | 2010 | 1'32''

Spec references J249: P2.1b J250: P2.1b. Description and animation. Distance time graphs.

Force arrows and balanced forces | Additional Science 2

Force arrows and balanced forces | Additional Science 2

BBC Two | 2010 | 42''

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Speed time graph - unbalanced forces | Curriculum Bites

Speed time graph - unbalanced forces | Curriculum Bites

CBBC | 2003 | 1'19''

Spec references J249: P2.1e J250: P2.1e. Speed time graph for a rocket related to unbalanced forces.

Unbalanced forces | Curriculum Bites

Unbalanced forces | Curriculum Bites

CBBC | 2003 | 1'11''

Spec references J249: P2.2d J250: P2.2d. Unbalanced forces cause acceleration.

Speed | Additional Science 1

Speed | Additional Science 1

BBC Two | 2010 | 37''

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BBC One | 2016 | 58'33''

In this episode Brian looks at the stunning diversity of shapes.

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3: What Is Gravity? | Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time

BBC Two | 2021 | 58'57''

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Einstein and the beetle | Gravity and Me: The Force that Shapes our Lives

BBC Four | 2017 | 1'20''

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Force, mass and acceleration | Additional Science 2

Force, mass and acceleration | Additional Science 2

BBC Two | 2010 | 1'14''

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Forces & Motion | Curriculum Bites

Forces & Motion | Curriculum Bites

CBBC | 2003 | 6'21''

Schools science programme where topics in the double science curriculum are broken down into small chunks.

Forces and moving objects | Additional Science 2

Forces and moving objects | Additional Science 2

BBC Two | 2010 | 1'25''

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Forces on a sky diver and terminal velocity | Curriculum Bites

Forces on a sky diver and terminal velocity | Curriculum Bites

CBBC | 2003 | 2'08''

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Forces when falling and terminal velocity | Additional Science 2

BBC Two | 2010 | 45''

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Kinetic energy | Additional Science 1

BBC Two | 2010 | 39''

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Momentum | Additional Science 1

BBC Two | 2010 | 1'29''

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2: The Power Of Flowers | How To Grow A Planet

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4: Scotland's Water | Making Scotland's Landscape

BBC One | 2010 | 59'01''

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3: The Big Freeze | Men of Rock

BBC Two | 2010 | 58'52''

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The Geology of Japan | Journeys into the Ring of Fire

BBC Four | 2006 | 2'20''

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