12 essential scientific concepts / Teaching Company.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2014.
Description
4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 171 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).

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    Subject(s)
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Getty AAT genre
    Series
    • Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics [More in this series]
    • Great courses. Science & mathematics. General science
    Summary note
    Professor Viskontas examines the most vital scientific concepts and ideas in order for you to develop a solid foundation of knowledge that will put more advanced areas of science within your reach.
    Notes
    • Course number 1126.
    • Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is ca. 30 min.
    System details
    DVD.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Lecturer: Professor Indre Viskontas, University of California, San Francisco.
    Contents
    • Disc 1: The miracle of life
    • The organization of life
    • Evolution: the tireless tinkerer
    • Other mechanisms of evolution
    • DNA and heritability
    • Epigenetics, mutations, and gene insertion
    • disc 2: The illusion of coherence: how we see
    • Acoustic perception deconstructed
    • Our changing brain
    • Plasticity, brain training, and beyond
    • Magnetism and its magic
    • Electrical forces, fields, and circuits
    • disc 3: Thermodynamics: heat, energy, and work
    • Metabolism: energy in the cell
    • Fluid mechanics: pressure, buoyancy, flow Navigation and propulsion in fluids
    • The Big Bang that didn't
    • The four forces of nature
    • disc 4: The elements of everything
    • Looks like a particle, acts like a wave
    • Quanta, uncertainty, and a cat
    • String theory, membranes, and the multiverse
    • Emergence: simple rules, complex systems
    • Order out of chaos.
    Other title(s)
    Twelve essential scientific concepts
    ISBN
    • 1629970395
    • 9781629970394
    • 9781490687520
    • 1490687521
    Publisher no.
    GV0118
    OCLC
    871180769
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