The Joy of science, The Teaching Company, (videorecording)

Resource Information

The instance The Joy of science, The Teaching Company, (videorecording) represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Instance, Video Recording.

Image

http://images.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?UserID=GMIL13104&Password=CC69935&Return=T&Value=9781565855526&Type=L

Label

The Joy of science, The Teaching Company, (videorecording)

Medium

videorecording

Statement of responsibility

The Teaching Company

Instantiates

• The Joy of science

Publication

• Chantilly, Va., Teaching Company, c2001

Note

• DVD
• Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography

Accompanying material

1 course guidebook (iv, 331 p. ; 19 cm.)

Color

multicolored

Configuration of playback channels

unknown

Contents

• Lecture five
• Newton's laws of motion ;
• Lecture six
• Universal gravitation
• Disc 2. Lecture seven
• The nature of energy ;
• Lecture eight
• The first law of thermodynamics ;
• Lecture nine
• The second law of thermodynamics ;
• Part I. Disc 1. Lecture one
• Lecture ten
• Entropy ;
• Lecture eleven
• Magnetism and static electricity ;
• Lecture twelve
• Electricity
• The nature of science ;
• lecture two
• The scientific method ;
• Lecture three
• The ordered universe ;
• Lecture four
• Celestial and terrestrial mechanics ;
• Lecture seventeen
• Atoms ;
• Lecture eighteen
• The Bohr atom
• Disc 4. Lecture nineteen
• The quantum world ;
• Lecture twenty
• The periodic table of the elements ;
• Lecture twenty one
• Introduction to chemistry ;
• Part II. Disc 3. Lecture thirteen
• Lecture twenty two
• The chemistry of carbon ;
• Lecture twenty three
• States of matter and changes of state ;
• Lecture twenty four
• Phase transformations and chemical reactions
• Electromagnetism ;
• Lecture fourteen
• The electromagnetic spectrum, part I ;
• Lecture fifteen
• The electromagnetic spectrum, part II ;
• Lecture sixteen
• Relativity ;
• Lecture twenty nine
• Astronomy ;
• Lecture thirty
• The life cycle of stars
• Disc 6. Lecture thirty one
• Edwin Hubble and the discovery of galaxies ;
• Lecture thirty two
• The big bang ;
• Lecture thirty three
• The ultimate structure of matter ;
• Part III. Disc 5. Lecture twenty five
• Lecture thirty four
• The nebular hypothesis ;
• Lecture thirty five
• The solar system ;
• Lecture thirty six
• The Earth as a planet
• Properties of materials ;
• Lecture twenty six
• Semiconductors and modern microelectronics ;
• Lecture twenty seven
• Isotopes and radioactivity ;
• Lecture twenty eight
• Nuclear fission and fusion reactions ;
• Lecture forty one
• The atmospheric cycle ;
• Lecture forty two
• The rock cycle
• Disc 8. Lecture lecture forty three
• What is life? ;
• Lecture forty four
• Strategies of life ;
• Lecture forty five
• Life's molecular building blocks ;
• Part IV. Disc 7. Lecture thirty seven
• Lecture forty six
• Proteins ;
• Lecture forty seven
• Cells: The chemical factories of life ;
• Lecture forty eight
• Gregor Mendel, founder of genetics
• The dynamic earth ;
• Lecture thirty eight
• The plate-tectonics revolution ;
• Lecture thirty nine
• Earthquakes, volcanoes, & plate motions today ;
• Lecture forty
• Earth cycles: Water ;
• Lecture fifty three
• Cancer and other genetic diseases ;
• Lecture fifty four
• The chemical evolution of life
• Disc 10. Lecture fifty five
• Biological evolution: A unifying theme of biology ;
• Lecture fifty six
• The fact of evolution: The fossil record ;
• Lecture fifty seven
• Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection ;
• Part V. Disc 9. Lecture forty nine
• Lecture fifty eight
• Ecosystems and the law of unintended consequences ;
• Lecture fifty nine
• The ozone hole, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect ;
• Lecture sixty
• Science: The endless frontier
• The discovery of DNA ;
• Lecture fifty
• The genetic code ;
• Lecture fifty one
• Reading the genetic code ;
• Lecture fifty two
• Genetic engineering ;

Dimensions

4 3/4 in. +

Dimensions

1/2 in.

Extent

10 videodiscs (1800 min.)

Isbn

9781565855526

Medium for sound

videodisc

Other physical details

sd. col.

Publisher number

• PD1100-01
• PD1100-02
• PD1100-03
• PD1100-04
• PD1100-05
• 1100

Record ID

1222191

Sound on medium or separate

sound on medium

Specific material designation

videodisc

System control number

(OCoLC)ocm51039376

Video recording format

DVD