Research Catalog

Title

12 essential scientific concepts [videorecording] / Teaching Company.

Publication

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Teaching Company. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91045166
• Viskontas, Indre.

Description

4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Great courses. Science & mathematics. General science

Uniform Title

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Alternative Title

Twelve essential scientific concepts

Subjects

• Discoveries in science
• History
• Science > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Course number 1126.
• Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is ca. 30 min.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

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.

ISBN

• 1629970395
• 9781629970394

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library