Description |
6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (266 pages ; 19 cm). |
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digital video rda |
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videodisc |
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DVD |
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video file DVD rda |
Series |
Great courses. Science & mathematics. Astronomy |
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Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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System Details |
DVD. |
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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.
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Cosmology. (OCoLC)fst00880600
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Genre/Form |
Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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Educational films. (OCoLC)fst01726235
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Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
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Educational films.
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Lectures.
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Added Author |
Whittle, Mark.
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Teaching Company.
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Added Title |
History and nature of our universe |
ISBN |
1598034936 |
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9781598034936 |
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9781490689272 |
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1490689273 |
Music No. |
1830 Teaching Co. |
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