Science Matters is designed to educate and inform viewers about science topics relevent to their lives and the world in which we live. Each Science Matters program focuses on essential core concepts, helping bridge conceptual development from the elementary to secondary level. Science Matters helps to prepare today's students for the science careers of tomorrow. Forcing the Issue demonstrates how forces push, pull, and set on things in motion. We learn that forces are all around us and how they act on everything.

Originally released by BECON, 2013. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on February 17, 2016.

Forcing the Issue: Introduction (1:24); --Motion of Objects (3:09); -- Calculating Average Velocity (2:39); -- Forces of Movement (4:16); -- Reaction of Forces (3:00); -- Electromagnetism (3:16); -- Mass and Gravity (2:51); -- Gravity and Motion (2:27); -- Forces of Flying (3:59); -- Force Review (0:48); -- Credits: Forcing the Issue: Science Matters (0:33); -- Mass and Gravity (2:48); .