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