The joy of science /
Robert M. Hazen.
- Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2001.
- 5 v. ; 22 cm.
- Lecture transcript and course guidebook .
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"Course no. 1100--1105"
lecture 1. The nature of science -- lecture 2. The scientific method -- lecture 3. The ordered universe -- lecture 4. Celestial and terrestrial mechanics -- lecture 5. Newton's laws of motion -- lecture 6. Universal gravitation -- lecture 7. The nature of energy -- lecture 8. The first law of thermodynamics -- lecture 9. The second law of thermodynamics -- lecture 10. Entropy -- lecture 11. Magnetism and static electricity -- lecture 12. Electricity -- lecture 13. Electromagnetism -- lecture 14. The electromagnetic spectrum, part I -- lecture 15. The electromagnetic spectrum, part II -- lecture 16. Relativity -- lecture 17. Atoms -- lecture 18. The Bohr atom -- lecture 19. The quantum world -- lecture 20. The periodic table of the elements -- lecture 21. Introduction to chemistry -- lecture 22. The chemistry of carbon -- lecture 23. States of matter and changes of state -- lecture 24. Phase transformation & chemical reactions -- lecture 25. Properties of materials -- lecture 26. Semiconductors and modern microelectronics -- lecture 27. Isotopes and radioactivity -- lecture 28. Nuclear fission and fusion reaction -- lecture 29. Astronomy -- lecture 30. The life cycle of stars -- lecture 31. Edwin Hubble and the discovery of galaxies -- lecture 32. The big bang -- lecture 33. The ultimate structure of matter -- lecture 34. The nebular hypothesis -- lecture 35. The solar system -- lecture 36. The Earth as a planet -- lecture 37. The dynamic earth -- lecture 38. The plate-tectonics revolution -- lecture 39. Earthquakes, volcanoes, & plate motions today -- lecture 40. Earth cycles, water -- lecture 41. The atmospheric cycle -- lecture 42. The rock cycle -- lecture 43. What is life? -- lecture 44. Strategies of life -- lecture 45. Life's molecular building blocks -- lecture 46. Proteins -- lecture 47. Cells, the chemical factories of life -- lecture 48. Gregor Mendel, founder of genetics -- lecture 49. The discovery of DNA -- lecture 50. The genetic code -- lecture 51. Reading the genetic code -- lecture 52. Genetic engineering -- lecture 53. Cancer and other genetic diseases -- lecture 54. The chemical evolution of life -- lecture 55. Biological evolution, a unifying theme of biology -- lecture 56. The fact of evolution, the fossil record -- lecture 57. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection -- lecture 58. Ecosystems and the law of unintended consequences -- lecture 59. The ozone hole, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect -- lecture 60. Science, the endless frontier.
Lucid, information-packed lectures conveying the excitement of scientific discovery and tracing the connections between discoveries over time.