Understanding the universe [videorecording] : an introduction to astronomy / The Teaching Company ; Alex Filippenko.
Ninety-six lectures, divided into ten sections, are designed to provide a non-technical description of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. Updated edition integrates discoveries reported in the 2003 course and includes recent findings (through mid-2006).
Record details
- ISBN: 1598032747
- ISBN: 9781598032741
- Physical Description: 16 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 562 pages).
- Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Course no. 1810. Lectures produced in 2007. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Guide includes bibliography (pages 551-555) and supplementary reading list (pages 556-562). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1, Disc 1. A grand tour of the cosmos ; The rainbow connection ; Sunrise, sunset ; Bright objects in the night sky ; Fainter phenomena in the night sky ; Our sky through binoculars and telescopes -- Disc 2. The celestial sphere ; The reason for the seasons ; Lunar phases and eerie lunar eclipses ; Glorious total solar eclipses ; More eclipse tales ; Early studies of the solar system -- Part 2, Disc 3. The geocentric universe ; Galileo and the Copernican revolution ; Refinements to the heliocentric model ; On the shoulders of giants ; Surveying space and time ; Scale models of the universe -- Disc 4. Light: the supreme informant ; The wave-particle duality of light ; The colors of stars ; The fingerprints of atoms ; Modern telescopes ; A better set of eyes -- Part 3, Disc 5. Our sun, the nearest star ; The Earth, third rock from the sun ; Our moon, Earth's nearest neighbor ; Mercury and Venus ; Of Mars and martians ; Jupiter and its amazing moons -- Disc 6. Magnificent Saturn ; Uranus and Neptune, the small giants ; Pluto and its cousins ; Asteroids and dwarf planets ; Comets: gorgeous pimordial snowballs ; Catastrophic collisons -- Part 4, Disc 7. The formation of planetary systems ; The quest for other planetary systems ; Extra-solar planets galore! ; Life beyond the Earth ; The search for extraterrestrials ; Special relativity and interstellar travel -- Disc 8. Stars: distant suns ; The intrinsic brightnesses of stars ; The diverse sizes of stars ; Binary stars and stellar masses ; Star clusters, ages, and remote distances ; How stars shine: nature's nuclear reactors -- Part 5, Disc 9. Solar neutrinos: probes of the sun's core ; Brown dwarfs and free-floating planets ; Our sun's brilliant future ; White dwarfs and nova eruptions ; Exploding stars: celestial fireworks ; White dwarf supernovae: stealing to explode -- Disc 10. Core-collapse supernovae: gravity wins ; The brightest supernova in nearly 400 years ; The corpses of massive stars ; Einstein's general theory of relativity ; Warping of space and time ; Black holes: abandon hope, ye who enter -- Part 6, Disc 11. The quest for black holes ; Imagining the journey to a black hole ; Wormholes: gateways to other universes? ; Quantum physics and black-hole evaporation ; Enigmatic gamma-ray bursts ; Birth cries of black holes -- Disc 12. Our home: the Milky Way Galaxy ; Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy ; Other galaxies: "Island universes" ; The dark side of matter ; Cosmology: The universe as a whole. Cosmic expansion and distant galaxies. Cosmology: the really big picture ; Expansion of the universe and the big bang -- Part 7, Disc 13. Searching for distant galaxies ; The evolution of galaxies ; Active galaxies and quasars ; Cosmic powerhouses of the distant past ; Supermassive black holes ; Feeding the monster -- Disc 14. The paradox of the dark night sky ; The age of the universe ; When geometry is destiny ; The mass density of the universe ; Einstein's biggest blunder? ; The afterglow of the big bang -- Part 8, Disc 15. Ripples in the cosmic background radiation ; The stuff of the cosmos ; Dark energy: quantum fluctuations? ; Dark energy: quintessence? ; Grand unification & theories of everything ; Searching for hidden dimensions -- Disc 16. The shape, size, and fate of the universe ; In the beginning ; The inflationary universe ; The ultimate free lunch? ; A universe of universes ; Reflections on life and the cosmos. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | For home use or face-to-face teaching. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Producer, Zachary H. Rhoades ; academic content supervisor, Jay Tate ; director, Jon Leven ; camera, Jim Allen, Alexis Doty, Lonnie Anderson, Jack Dierken, Jared Bourgeouis, Will Savage. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer, Alex Filippenko. |
| Target Audience Note: | College students and adults. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Old Fort Branch Library | 520 FIL (Text)
: V1 AND V2 DVD LECTURES SHELVED SEPARATELY [ CM @ OLD_FORT ]
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37810435330260 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Old Fort Branch Library | DVD 520 FIL V1 8DISC (Text)
: V2 AND COURSE GUIDEBOOK SHELVED SEPARATELY [ CM @ OLD_FORT ]
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37810435330245 | Adult Video Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Old Fort Branch Library | DVD 520 FIL V2 8DISC (Text)
: V1 AND COURSE GUIDEBOOK SHELVED SEPARATELY [ CM @ OLD_FORT ]
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37810435330252 | Adult Video Nonfiction | Available | - |
