12 essential scientific concepts
"How has science changed the world? That question is what this course is about. The course will survey the scientific concepts that have changed our world and how we understand it, from quantum mechanics to emergence--from the smallest things to the unfathomable breadth of the universe."--...
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Great Courses,
c2014.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The miracle of life -- |t The organization of life -- |t Evolution: the tireless tinkerer -- |t Other mechanisms of evolution -- |t DNA and heritability -- |t Epigenetics, mutations, and gene insertion -- |t The illusion of coherence: how we see -- |t Acoustic perception deconstructed -- |t Our changing brain -- |t Plasticity, brain training, and beyond -- |t Magnetism and its magic -- |t Electrical forces, fields, and circuits -- |t Thermodynamics: heat, energy, and work -- |t Metabolism: energy in the cell -- |t Fluid mechanics: pressure, buoyancy, flow -- |t Navigation and propulsion in fluids -- |t The Big Bang that didn't -- |t The four forces of nature -- |t The elements of everything -- |t Looks like a particle, acts like a wave -- |t Quanta, uncertainty, and a cat -- |t String theory, membranes, and the multiverse -- |t Emergence: simple rules, complex systems -- |t Order out of chaos. |
| 511 | 0 | |a 24 lectures by Professor Indre Viskontas, University of California, San Francisco. | |
| 520 | |a "How has science changed the world? That question is what this course is about. The course will survey the scientific concepts that have changed our world and how we understand it, from quantum mechanics to emergence--from the smallest things to the unfathomable breadth of the universe."--P. 1, book | ||
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