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12 essential scientific concepts

Title
12 essential scientific concepts / Teaching Company.
Publication
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Viskontas, Indre.
  • Teaching Company.
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
Subject
  • Science
  • Science > History
  • Discoveries in science
  • Science
  • Sciences
  • Sciences > Histoire
  • Découvertes scientifiques
  • sciences (philosophy)
Genre/Form
  • Lecture
  • DVD video-discs.
  • lectures.
  • Lectures.
  • Educational films.
  • History.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Films éducatifs.
  • Conférences.
  • Films autres que de fiction.
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
  • 9781490687520
  • 1490687521
OCLC
  • ocn871180769
  • 871180769
  • SCSB-9586306
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library