Description: I’m selling my Dad’s collection of Science lectures from The Great Courses. He was an engineer and physicist, and would want another person who loves these topics to enjoy them at a significant discount. Please check out my other listings if these topics are interesting to you.DVD Course (4 discs) with the Course Guidebook and Transcript book in Like NEW condition. The Transcript book has a light scratch on the front cover. See photo. Pages are clean and not marked. This series normally retails for $339 on the Great Courses website.What You Will Learn: In 24 riveting half-hour lectures, Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time takes you on a mind-expanding journey through the past, present, and future, guided by Professor Sean Carroll, noted author and Senior Research Associate in Physics at the California Institute of Technology.Designed for nonscientists as well as those with a background in physics, Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time shows how a feature of the world that we all experience connects us to the instant of the formation of the universe—and possibly to a multiverse that is unimaginably larger and more varied than the known cosmos.While focusing on physics, Professor Carroll also examines philosophical views on time, how we perceive and misperceive time, the workings of memory, and serious proposals for time travel, as well as imaginative ways that time has been disrupted in fiction.24 LecturesAverage 31 minutes each 1) Why Time Is a Mystery 2) What Is Time? 3) Keeping Time 4) Time’s Arrow 5) The Second Law of Thermodynamics 6) Reversibility and the Laws of Physics 7) Time Reversal in Particle Physics 8) Time in Quantum Mechanics 9) Entropy and Counting 10) Playing with Entropy 11) The Past Hypothesis 12) Memory, Causality, and Action 13) Boltzmann Brains 14) Complexity and Life 15) The Perception of Time 16) Memory and Consciousness 17) Time and Relativity 18) Curved Spacetime and Black Holes 19) Time Travel 20) Black Hole Entropy 21) Evolution of the Universe 22) The Big Bang 23) The Multiverse 24) Approaches to the Arrow of Time This course is taught by Professor Sean Carroll, a professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. The Great Courses is well known for providing high-quality, college-level courses so that you can learn in your own time, at home. Learn from award-winning experts and professors from the most respected institutions in the world.
Price: 23.9 USD
Location: Littleton, Colorado
End Time: 2024-11-07T16:17:02.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD
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Subject: Physics
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Format: Book, DVD
Subject Area: Physics
Language: English
Publication Name: Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time
Author: Sean Carroll
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Level: Intermediate
