Understanding the universe an introduction to astronomy
Record details
- ISBN: 9781598032741
- ISBN: 1598032747
- ISBN: 9781490666440
- ISBN: 1598032747
- ISBN: 9781598032741
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Physical Description:
16 videodiscs (2880 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 562 p. ; 19 cm.)
videodisc
videorecording - Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part VIII: Disc 15. Lecture 85 Ripples in the cosmic background radiation ; Lecture 86 The stuff of the cosmos ; Lecture 87 Dark energy: Quantum fluctuations? ; Lecture 88 Dark energy: Quintessence? ; Lecture 89 Grand unification & theories of everything ; Lecture 90 Searching for hidden dimensions -- Disc 16. Lecture 91 The shape, size, and fate of the universe ; Lecture 92 In the beginning ; Lecture 93 The inflationary universe ; Lecture 94 The ultimate free lunch? ; Lecture 95 A universe of universes ; Lecture 96 Reflections on life and the cosmos. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Producer, Zachary H. Rhoades ; director, Jon Leven ; camera operators, Jim Allen, Alexis Doty, Lonnie Anderson (et. al.) ; academic content supervisor, Jay Tate. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Ninety-six lectures of thirty minutes each by Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. |
Summary, etc.: | 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). |
System Details Note: | DVD. |
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- 36 of 36 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 3 of 3 copies available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show preferred library)
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | GREAT COURSES DVD 520 U (Text) | 32518121856523 | Adult DVD | Available | - | |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | GREAT COURSES DVD 520 U Pt.1 (Text) | pt. 1 | 32518121856515 | Adult DVD | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | GREAT COURSES DVD 520 U Pt.2 (Text) | pt. 2 | 32518121856507 | Adult DVD | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | DVD 520 GRE (Text) | discs 1 & 2 | 34055131999512 | Adult Nonfiction DVD | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | DVD 520 GRE (Text) | discs 3 & 4 | 34055131999504 | Adult Nonfiction DVD | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | DVD 520 GRE (Text) | discs 5 & 6 | 34055131999496 | Adult Nonfiction DVD | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | DVD 520 GRE (Text) | discs 7 & 8 | 34055131999488 | Adult Nonfiction DVD | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | DVD 520 GRE (Text) | discs 9 & 10 | 34055131999470 | Adult Nonfiction DVD | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | DVD 520 GRE (Text) | discs 11 & 12 | 34055131999462 | Adult Nonfiction DVD | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | DVD 520 GRE (Text) | discs 13 & 14 | 34055131999454 | Adult Nonfiction DVD | Available | - |
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