12 essential scientific concepts /
Professor Viskontas examines the most vital scientific concepts and ideas in order for you to develop a solid foundation of knowledge that will put more advanced areas of science within your reach.
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| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
Ã2014.
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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Table of Contents:
- Disc 1: The miracle of life
- The organization of life
- Evolution: the tireless tinkerer
- Other mechanisms of evolution
- DNA and heritability
- Epigenetics, mutations, and gene insertion
- disc 2: The illusion of coherence: how we see
- Acoustic perception deconstructed
- Our changing brain
- Plasticity, brain training, and beyond
- Magnetism and its magic
- Electrical forces, fields, and circuits
- disc 3: Thermodynamics: heat, energy, and work
- Metabolism: energy in the cell
- Fluid mechanics: pressure, buoyancy, flow Navigation and propulsion in fluids
- The Big Bang that didn't
- The four forces of nature
- disc 4: The elements of everything
- Looks like a particle, acts like a wave
- Quanta, uncertainty, and a cat
- String theory, membranes, and the multiverse
- Emergence: simple rules, complex systems
- Order out of chaos.