| Edition |
Library edition. |
| Description |
16 videodiscs (2880 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in. + 8 course guidebooks. |
| Series |
Great courses, Science & mathematics |
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Great courses (DVD)
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Alex Filippenko. |
| Note |
Ninety-six lectures of thirty minutes each. |
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Two volumes, 8 discs in each, 1 guide book for each volume. |
| Credits |
Producer, Zachary H. Rhoades ; director, Jon Leven ; camera operators, Jim Allen, Alexis Doty, Lonnie Anderson (et. al.) ; academic content supervisor, Jay Tate. |
| Note |
Course no. 1810. |
| Summary |
This series of lectures is a nontechnical description of the main concepts, methods, and discoveries in astronomy--in depth--from the constellations drawn by the ancients, to the latest reports from planetary probes in our Solar System. All of the material is integrated so that one topic builds on another to develop the conceptual tools that allow exploration of the Universe. The Solar System leads naturally to the investigation of planets around other stars and the possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmos, while atmospheric phenomena introduce the subject of light, the key to unraveling the mysteries of stars and galaxies. Includes recent findings (through mid-2006). |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Pt. 1. A grand tour of the cosmos ; The rainbow connection ; Sunrise, sunset ; Bright objects in the night sky ; Fainter phenomena in the night sky ; Our sky through binoculars and telescopes -- Disc 2. The celestial sphere ; The reason for the seasons ; Lunar phases and eerie lunar eclipses ; Glorious total solar eclipses ; More eclipse tales ; Early studies of the solar system. |
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Disc 3. Pt. 2. The geocentric universe ; Galileo and the Copernican revolution ; Refinements to the heliocentric model ; On the shoulders of giants ; Surveying space and time ; Scale models of the universe -- Disc 4. Light : the supreme informant ; The wave-particle duality of light ; The colors of stars ; The fingerprints of atoms ; Modern telescopes ; A better set of eyes. |
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Disc 5. Pt. 3. Our sun, the nearest star ; The Earth, third rock from the sun ; Our moon, Earth's nearest neighbor ; Mercury and Venus ; Of Mars and martians ; Jupiter and its amazing moons -- Disc 6. Magnificent Saturn ; Uranus and Neptune, the small giants ; Pluto and its cousins ; Asteroids and dwarf planets ; Comets : gorgeous primordial snowballs ; Catastrophic collisons. |
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Disc 7. Pt. 4. The formation of planetary systems ; The quest for other planetary systems ; Extra-solar planets galore! ; Life beyond the Earth ; The search for extraterrestrials ; Special relativity and interstellar travel -- Disc 8. Stars : distant suns ; The intrinsic brightnesses of stars ; The diverse sizes of stars ; Binary stars and stellar masses ; Star clusters, ages, and remote distances ; How stars shine : nature's nuclear reactors. |
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Disc 9. Pt. 5. Solar neutrinos : probes of the sun's core ; Brown dwarfs and free-floating planets ; Our sun's briliant future ; White dwarfs and nova eruptions ; Exploding stars : celestial fireworks! ; White dwarf supernovae : stealing to explode -- Disc 10. Core-collapse supernovae : gravity wins ; The brightest supernova in nearly 400 years ; The corpses of massive stars ; Einstein's general theory of relativity ; Warping of space and time ; Black holes : abandon hope, ye who enter. |
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Disc 11. Pt. 6. The quest for black holes ; Imagining the journey to a black hole ; Wormholes : gateways to other universes? ; Quantum physics and black-hole evaporation ; Enigmatic gamma-ray bursts ; Birth cries of black holes -- Disc 12. Our home : the Milky Way Galaxy ; Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy ; Other galaxies : "island universes" ; The dark side of matter ; Cosmology : the really big picture ; Expansion of the universe and the big bang. |
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Disc 13. Pt. 7. Searching for distant galaxies ; The evolution of galaxies ; Active galaxies and quasars ; Cosmic powerhouses of the distant past ; Supermassive black holes ; Feeding the monster -- Disc 14. The paradox of the dark night sky ; The age of the universe ; When geometry is destiny ; The mass density of the universe ; Einstein's biggest blunder? ; The afterglow of the big bang. |
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Disc 15. Pt. 8. Ripples in the cosmic background radiation ; The stuff of the cosmos ; Dark energy : quantum fluctuations? ; Dark energy : quintessence? ; Grand unification & theories of everything ; Searching for hidden dimensions -- Disc 16. The shape, size, and fate of the universe ; In the beginning ; The inflationary universe ; The ultimate free lunch? ; A universe of universes ; Reflections on life and the cosmos. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
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Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
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Cosmology.
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Astronomy.
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Solar system.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Introduction to astronomy |
| ISBN |
1598032747 |
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9781598032741 |
| Music No. |
1810 Teaching Company |
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