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Title Cosmology : the history and nature of our universe.

Publication Info. Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  GREAT COURSES 523.1 COSMOLOGY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult DVD Set  DVD SET 523.1 COS    Check Shelf
Description 6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (266 pages ; 19 cm).
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Series Great courses. Science & mathematics. Astronomy
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
System Details DVD.
Cast Lecturer: Professor Mark Whittle, University of Virginia.
Contents Disc 1. Lecture 1:The journey ahead ; Lecture 2: Denizens of the universe ; Lecture 3: Overall cosmic properties ; Lecture 4: The stuff of the universe ; Lecture 5: The sweep of cosmic history ; Lecture 6: Measuring distances -- Disc 2. Lecture 7: Expansion and age ; Lecture 8: Distances, appearances, and horizons ; Lecture 9: Dark matter and dark energy--96%! ; Lecture 11: Cosmic expansion--keeping track of energy ; Lecture 12: Cosmic acceleration--falling outward. Disc 3. Lecture 13: The cosmic microwave background ; Lecture 14: Conditions during the first million years ; Lecture 15: Primordial sound--big bang acoustics ; Lecture 16: Using sound as cosmic diagnostic ; Lecture 17: Primordial roughness--seeding structure ; Lecture 18: The Dark Age--from sound to the first stars -- Disc 4. Lecture 19: Infant galaxies ; Lecture 20: From child to maturity--galaxy evolution ; Lecture 21: Giant Black Holes--construction and carnage ; Lecture 22: The galaxy web--a relic of primordial sound ; Lecture 23: Atom factories--stellar interiors ; Lecture 24: Understanding element abundances -- Disc 5. Lecture 25: Light elements--made in the Big Bang ; Lecture 26: Putting it together--the Concordance Model Lecture 27: Physics at ultrahigh temperatures ; Lecture 28: Back to a microsecond--the particle cascade ; Lecture 29: Back to the GUT--matter and forces emerge ; Lecture 30: Puzzling problems remain -- Disc 6. Lecture 31: Inflation provides the solution ; Lecture 32: The quantum origin of all structure ; Lecture 33: Inflation's stunning creativity ; Lecture 34: Fine tuning and anthropic arguments ; Lecture 35: What's next for cosmology? ; Lecture 36: A comprehensible universe?
Summary In his 36 lectures, professor Mark Whittle talks on knowledge of astronomy and our universe.
Bibliography Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Cosmology.
Cosmology. (OCoLC)fst00880600
Genre/Form Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
Educational films. (OCoLC)fst01726235
Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
Educational films.
Lectures.
Added Author Whittle, Mark.
Teaching Company.
Added Title History and nature of our universe
ISBN 1598034936
9781598034936
9781490689272
1490689273
Music No. 1830 Teaching Co.
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