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...Physical Sciences at the Open University. ALAN CAYLESS: I'm Alan Cayless, and I'm a physicist an astronomer at the Open University. JO JARVIS: During this first week of the course, we're hoping to guide you around the night sky and prove that you don't have to have a telescope to learn your way around. In fact, Alan, you started off with binoculars, didn't you? ALAN...

...physical resources and which are the starting point for all manufactured items. Such resources are also often called raw materials, but this term is more generally used to describe the input for any manufacturing process. Similarly the term product can be used to describe the output of any manufacturing process. So, crudely, a raw material is anything that can be turned...

...Physical hazards - In any laboratory, potential hazards arise from the use of electrical equipment. The legal requirements relating to the use and maintenance of such equipment are contained in the ‘Electricity at Work Regulations 1989’ (EAW). The regulations require certain safety objectives to be achieved but do not prescribe in detail the measures to be taken....

...Physical Sciences at The Open University. Through his research he has contributed to a number of space missions. GERAINT MORGAN The Open University is best known for its distance learning. What surprises people is the amount of research we do here and the relevance to the modern world. For the last 20 years or so, I’ve been working on the recent Rosetta mission here at...

...Physically I did not feel it. The physical departure with the station is done because of a push of some spring that there are inside. You don't want to start your engines close to the station because you're going to plume everything. So you're just kind of drifting away. And what you're doing there, what we were doing, we're just looking at the instruments, looking at the...