Random Events

Series: PSSC Physics Films Series

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1961

Creator: MLA Physical Science Study Committee. Physics.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume show how the over-all effect of a very large number of random events can be very predictable, using several unusual games to bring out the statistical nature of this predictability. They explain the predictable nature of radioactive decay in terms of what is shown. For more info on PSSC, its history, and films, visit http://www.afana.org/psscfilms.htm

Complete Record: Shows how the over-all effect of a very large number of random events can be very predictable. Several unusual games are played to bring out the statistical nature of this predictability. The predictable nature of radioactive decay is explained.


This film is not rare.

4 users have this film:
Academic Film Archive of North America, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Oddball Film and Video


Related films: