TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helfand,David J.
ED  - Teaching Company
TI  - The physics of history
T2  - The great courses
SN  - 1598035460
AV  - LB 14.6 H474p 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chantilly, Va.
PB  - Teaching Co.
KW  - Educación
KW  - Enseñanza
KW  - Física
KW  - Estudio y enseñanza
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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