The physics of history /
Helfand, David J., 1950-
The physics of history / David J. Helfand. - Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., 2009. - 2 volumes ; 21 cm. - Great courses . - The great courses . - The Great Courses .
Course no. 1252.
"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
v. 1. Vast reaches of time and space --
Fundamentally, what's the world made of? --
Energy in the atomic world --
The atomic basis of the senses --
Radioactivity: nature's imperturbable clock --
From detecting forgeries to the First Art --
Watching plaster dry-and dating it --
We are what we eat: the history of diet --
A plant is what it eats: tracing agriculture --
Tree rings: seasons of the past 12,000 years --
Ice cores: climate records for 800 millennia --
Ocean sediments reveal 5 million years --
v.2. Bad day in June --
dinosaurs --
Origin and early history of life --
History of earth's atmosphere --
Age of the solar system --
What happened before the sun was born? --
Atoms are star stuff --
cooking up carbon --
Lives of big stars --
cooking up big atoms --
Relativity --
space and time become spacetime --
(Almost) everything is relative --
Matter vanishes; light speed is breached? --
Limits of vision --
13.7 billion years ago --
First few minutes --
where it all began.
An undergraduate course for nonscience majors that treats the atom as a tool for revealing the quantitative history of everything--from the human diet and works of art to Earth's climate and the universe.
1598035460 9781598035469
2011377509
Educación
Enseñanza
Física
Física--Estudio y enseñanza
LB 14.6 / H474p 2009
The physics of history / David J. Helfand. - Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., 2009. - 2 volumes ; 21 cm. - Great courses . - The great courses . - The Great Courses .
Course no. 1252.
"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
v. 1. Vast reaches of time and space --
Fundamentally, what's the world made of? --
Energy in the atomic world --
The atomic basis of the senses --
Radioactivity: nature's imperturbable clock --
From detecting forgeries to the First Art --
Watching plaster dry-and dating it --
We are what we eat: the history of diet --
A plant is what it eats: tracing agriculture --
Tree rings: seasons of the past 12,000 years --
Ice cores: climate records for 800 millennia --
Ocean sediments reveal 5 million years --
v.2. Bad day in June --
dinosaurs --
Origin and early history of life --
History of earth's atmosphere --
Age of the solar system --
What happened before the sun was born? --
Atoms are star stuff --
cooking up carbon --
Lives of big stars --
cooking up big atoms --
Relativity --
space and time become spacetime --
(Almost) everything is relative --
Matter vanishes; light speed is breached? --
Limits of vision --
13.7 billion years ago --
First few minutes --
where it all began.
An undergraduate course for nonscience majors that treats the atom as a tool for revealing the quantitative history of everything--from the human diet and works of art to Earth's climate and the universe.
1598035460 9781598035469
2011377509
Educación
Enseñanza
Física
Física--Estudio y enseñanza
LB 14.6 / H474p 2009