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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Discover the origin of Earth’s great variability in air temperature, and learn how it also explains the seasons. Search for the highest and lowest temperatures on the planet, and the locations with the greatest difference between highs and lows. Along the way, encounter the deadliest weather on Earth.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of conservation of energy (part 1) in simple harmonic motion in Physics. We begin by discussing how in a perfect system energy is neither created nor destroyed. As the object swings, the energy is continually transferred from kinetic to potential forms and vice versa. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis...
23) Social Progress
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Continue your investigation of social reality by looking at the concept of progress. Social optimists and pessimists alike believe that society is progressing, but they see different causes. Evaluate their theories, and explore the idea that Western culture is doomed to collapse under its own weight..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Survey the remarkable range of extreme weather around the planet. Then consider: Why does Earth have weather at all? Professor Snodgrass introduces basic features of the atmosphere that naturally lead to severe weather. He concludes by outlining the goals of the course—among them, preparedness.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For all of their ubiquity, personal computers, email, and the Internet represent a major departure in the evolution of computer technology. Witness the exciting and improbable birth of personal computing in the 1970s, and explore the nature of the virtual world where more and more people now reside..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Begin a series of lectures on thunderstorms, which are the key to understanding many types of extreme weather. Learn how thunderstorms are forecast, and explore their formation by following a weather balloon on its data-gathering mission through the atmosphere.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of standing waves and resonance (part 2) in Physics. We begin by discussing how waves can be made to reflect off of an object and interfere in the opposite direction to the original wave leading to a standing wave. 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...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Consider the deadly power of moving water. Explore scenarios for extreme flooding in flood-prone regions of the U.S. and consider past cases of extreme coastal floods, river floods, and flash floods. Study the meteorology behind these events, and hear flood safety tips.
29) Physics 2 Tutor (Thermodynamics, Oscillations & Waves): Learning By Example. Kinetic Theory of Gases
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of the kinetic theory of gases in Physics. We begin by discussing the theory, which involves how energy is transferred to a gas and what results from the motion of gas molecules. 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
This program covers the important topic of transverse waves (part 1) in Physics. We begin by discussing how transverse waves arise in nature and conclude by learning in detail how to write down the mathematical representation of these waves. 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...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Wind shear is the ingredient that turns an ordinary thunderstorm into a monster. Study the mechanisms that underlie this transformation. Then evaluate the crucial difference between a severe weather watch versus a warning, and put yourself in the shoes of a forecaster calling the shots.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of superposition and interference of waves in Physics. We begin by discussing two or more waves can interact by adding the amplitudes of the waves together. This is known as superposition of waves. 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...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Pound for pound, the supercell is the most powerful thunderstorm on Earth. Explore the mechanics of this system, which produces the strongest straight-line winds, the most violent tornadoes, and the largest hail. Close by looking at the formation of a record-breaking hailstone weighing almost two pounds!
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of heat engines and the second law of thermodynamics in Physics. We begin by discussing the theory, which involves how useful work can be done by engines which use expansion or hot gases to move a piston. 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...
35) 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
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...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The most secure science, mathematics, hit the rocks of uncertainty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Trace the shocking discoveries of non-Euclidean geometries, Cantor’s paradoxes of infinite sets, and the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Godel. See how Alice in Wonderland sheds intriguing light on this new view of reality..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Explore the history of genetic engineering, which has roots in the imaginary hybrid creatures of ancient myth. Learn how real hybrids can be made by splicing genes for desired traits into the genome of an organism. Then discover how this brave new technology is being used..
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of oscillations (part 1) and simple harmonic motion in Physics. We begin by discussing how oscillations arise in nature and how everyday processes such as pendulums lead to simple harmonic motion. We also discuss how this motion can be modeled by a sinusoid. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed...
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..
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