- Subjects
- Published
-
[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company
[2014]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: General science"--Cover.
"Course no. 1126"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - ISBN
- 9781629970400
- Disc 1. The miracle of life
- The organization of life
- Disc 2. Evolution : the tireless tinkerer
- Other mechanisms of evolution
- Disc 3. DNA and heritability
- Epigenetics, mutations, and gene insertion
- Disc 4. The illusion of coherence : how we see
- Acoustic perception deconstructed
- Disc 5. Our changing brain
- Plasticity, brain training, and beyond
- Disc 6. Magnetism and its magic
- Electrical forces, fields, and circuits
- Disc 7. Thermodynamics : heat, energy, and work
- Metabolism : energy in the cell
- Disc 8. Fluid mechanics : pressure, buoyancy, flow
- Navigation and propulsion in fluids
- Disc 9. The big bang that didn't
- The four forces of nature
- Disc 10. The elements of everything
- Looks like a particle, acts like a wave
- Disc 11. Quanta, uncertainty, and a cat
- String theory, membranes, and the multiverse
- Disc 12. Emergence : simple rules, complex systems
- Order out of chaos.