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The physics of history / David J. Helfand.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Great courses | The great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., 2009.Description: 2 volumes ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1598035460
  • 9781598035469
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 H474p 2009
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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