Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies at 92

Re:Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies a... by GrumpyYoungMan on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:09PM (#11679758)

Tom Apostol was also part of the team that put together "The Mechanical Universe", a highly acclaimed 52 episode series of video lectures that cover a full undergraduate physics course.

The creators of the program provide all episodes online at https://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html

I never met the man but I learned a lot from him. May he rest in peace.

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Re:Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies a... by jacobolus on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:35AM (#11681337)

That site says: “After June 30, 2016, we will no longer distribute this series on DVD, and the videos will no longer be available online.” Anyone know why, or if they plan to do anything else with the videos?

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Re:Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies a... by lstamour on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:56AM (#11681404)

An explanation is given here: http://scaapt.org/archives/1286

> "You may ask why the series is being retired. The original producers (Intelecom) do not have the staff or the information available to locate all the third party rights holders of the additional footage and rights to that footage has expired. Therefore, it must be taken out of distribution."

I imagine that unless unknown rights-holders pull them off YouTube (as they apparently haven't yet...) then it will still be available some places.

The above page also notes the availability of https://www.learner.org/courses/physics/ which includes 11 videos.

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Re:Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies a... by hackuser on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:50PM (#11684853)

Our intellectual property system gets in the way again. Why don't all the limited government, anti-regulatory people complain about this?

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