Murphy's law

Australia, 2000

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Episode number 4 of Series “Great moments in science: presented by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki”.
If there are two or more ways to do something and if one of those results in catastrophe, then someone will do it that way, Edward A. Murphy Jr. In 1949 the US Airforce had a project called MX984 which measured G forces and in which Edward A. Murphy was working. You can find out what went wrong and how inadvertently this famous law came about. With the use of several animation techniques, Karl Kruszelnicki explains this, as well as why a falling piece of toast will always land on the floor - buttered side down.

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Credits

director

Andrew Horne

producer

Deborah Szapiro

production company

Freerange Animation

Karl Kruszelnicki

Duration

00:05:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
2000

Appears in

Great moments in science: presented by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

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Great moments in science: presented by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

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ACMI Identifier

315823

Language

English

Subject categories

Animation

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Force and energy

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Science

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Scientists

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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