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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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Q158.5 .A148 2014
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Science
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Science
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Viskontas, Indre
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Educational films
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Lectures
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Series
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics
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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.
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Twelve essential scientific concepts
ISBN
1629970395
9781629970394
9781490687520
1490687521
Publisher no.
GV0118
OCLC
871180769
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