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Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of refrigerators in Physics. We begin by discussing how refrigerators are just “heat engines” operated in reverse because they require energy to pump heat away from an object. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in their skills by gradual repetition so that...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Physics is frequently one of the hardest subjects for students to tackle because it is a combination of two of the toughest subjects for most students: Math and Word Problems. What sets this series apart from other physics teaching tools is that the concepts are taught entirely through step-by step example problems of increasing difficulty. It works by introducing each new concept in an easy to understand way and using example problems that are worked...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Language
English
Description
Quantum mechanics gives us a picture of the world so radically counterintuitive that it has changed our perspective on reality itself. In Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World, award-winning Professor Benjamin Schumacher gives you the logical tools to grasp the paradoxes and astonishing insights of this field.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Witness a demonstration of the power of air pressure and the ability of changing pressure to produce clouds. Learn how fluctuations in air pressure play a role in all weather, propelling everything from the ferocious winds of a tornado to the incredible speeds of the jet stream.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Close by investigating one of the most eventful weather triggers of all: the El Nino–Southern Oscillation, which starts as a warming trend in the eastern Pacific and can lead to extreme weather throughout the world. Our detailed understanding of this once-mysterious phenomenon, as well as other extreme weather cycles, shows how far the science of meteorology has come.
6) Physics 2 Tutor (Thermodynamics, Oscillations & Waves): Learning By Example. Pendulums and Resonance
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of Pendulums and Resonance in Physics. We begin by discussing how under the right conditions a pendulum can be made to perfectly transfer energy which is known as resonance. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in their skills by gradual repetition so that the skills...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of the first law of thermodynamics in Physics. We begin by discussing how this law is derived and how it is applied to practical problems in physics. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in their skills by gradual repetition so that the skills learned in this section...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The region downwind from the Great Lakes is famous for its lake effect snowstorms, which can total more than 200 inches of snow per year for some locations. Examine the factors behind this phenomenon as well as the mortal danger posed by blizzards, as shown by the tragic Children’s Blizzard of 1888.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Begin the first of three lectures on winter weather by pinning down the cause of ice storms, which are beautiful but also dangerous and destructive. Professor Snodgrass demonstrates how supercooled water is the source of the freezing rain behind these perilous storms.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Apply the reality-analyzing tools you’ve learned in the course to the problem of life. Consider the close connection between life and sunlight. Then look at the startling exception to this rule: the fauna that flourish around volcanic vents in the dark ocean depths. What does this tell us about life’s origins?.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of traveling sound waves (part 1) in Physics. We begin by discussing how sound waves propagate through the air and other mediums. We discuss the mathematical form of the compression wave and discuss the speed of sound, frequency, and more. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Trace the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) from simple calculating machines to computers that can vanquish chess masters. Learn the distinction between weak AI, such as a chess-playing machine, and strong AI, which is a machine that has a truly human-like mind. Question whether strong AI is even possible..
13) Brain and Self
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What makes us distinctly human? Analyze the contributions of genetics, environmental factors, and social interaction to our effective functioning as members of the species. See how CT, MRI, and PET imaging technologies provide windows into brain structure and activity..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Relativity was incomplete until Einstein formulated a general theory of relativity that incorporated gravity. See how this breakthrough demolished the age-old idea of gravity as a force, replacing it with the concept of warped spacetime, leading to strange predictions such as black holes..
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of expansion and contraction of solids and liquids in Physics. We begin by discussing the nature of expansion and contraction and how this process occurs as a result of temperature change. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in their skills by gradual repetition...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For all of its abstractness, money is a powerfully real phenomenon. Delve into the intricate events that unfold as money, goods, and services are exchanged in the economy. Examine how the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and the results of modern psychological research challenge the two primary assumptions of classical economic theory..
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of sound intensity and sound level in Physics. We begin by discussing how sound waves carry energy and how it is sometimes convenient to discuss the energy carried by a wave in terms of its sound intensity or sound level. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in...
18) Chaos Theory
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Traditional attempts to understand the world assumed that it was regular, simple, periodic, and predictable. But nature surprised scientists, giving them a richer picture of reality through chaos theory, which includes fractal structures. Learn how chaos is not randomness but a previously unimagined complexity within the universe..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Can physics explain consciousness? Start with Descartes, who held the dualistic view that the mind and body are separate, and see how materialists countered that brain processes produce the mind. Then discover what physics has to say about free will, and probe the famous thought experiment involving Schrodinger’s cat..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Modern technology has transformed procreation, birth, and parenting. Given the different donor and surrogate options, it’s perfectly possible to have a child with five biologically contributing parents. What are the implications of this revolution, especially if human cloning becomes the next new option?.
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