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Understanding the universe [videorecording] : what's new in asronomy, 2003 / Alex Filippenko ; the Teaching Company.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Publication details: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2003.Description: 4 videodiscs (12 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1565857666
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QB51 .U543 2003
Contents:
Pt.1. From dawn to dusk -- Exploring the night sky -- Recent discoveries in our solar system -- Other worlds galore! -- The formation and evolution of stars -- Supernovae : catastrophic stellar explosions -- Gamma ray bursts and the birth of black holes -- Observational evidence for black holes -- pt.2. Einstein's relativity -- Cosmology and cosmic expansion -- The birth and evolution of galaxies -- The accelerating expansion of the universe -- The stuff of the cosmos -- Dark energy : may the force be with you -- Theories of everything, and hidden dimensions -- Our universe, one of many?
Alex Filippenko, lecturer.Subject: Professor Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley delivers 16 lectures on the universe.
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16 lectures (45 min. each) in 2 parts.

Course guides include an outline of each lecture and bibliographical references.

"Course no. 190".--Disc.

Teaching Company: PD190-01--PD190-02.

Pt.1. From dawn to dusk -- Exploring the night sky -- Recent discoveries in our solar system -- Other worlds galore! -- The formation and evolution of stars -- Supernovae : catastrophic stellar explosions -- Gamma ray bursts and the birth of black holes -- Observational evidence for black holes -- pt.2. Einstein's relativity -- Cosmology and cosmic expansion -- The birth and evolution of galaxies -- The accelerating expansion of the universe -- The stuff of the cosmos -- Dark energy : may the force be with you -- Theories of everything, and hidden dimensions -- Our universe, one of many?

Alex Filippenko, lecturer.

Professor Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley delivers 16 lectures on the universe.

DVD.

Home use only.

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