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The physics of history / Professor David J. Helfand.

[PDF workbook version].

[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company ; Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books, [2009]

©2009

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 PDF.

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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Helfand, D. J. (David J.), 1950- author, speaker.

Teaching Company.

Recorded Books, LLC.

Course no. 1252.

Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.

Lecturer: Professor David J. Helfand, Columbia University.

DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.

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 -- A bad day in June: death of the dinosaurs -- The origin and early history of life -- The history of Earth's atmosphere -- The Age of the Solar System -- What happened before the Sun was born -- Atoms are star stuff: cooking up carbon -- The lives of big stars: cooking up big atoms -- Relativity: space and time become spacetime -- Almost everything is relative -- Matter vanishes; light speed is breached? -- The limits of vision-13.7 billion years ago -- The first few minutes: where it all began.

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