The Joy of Science
Course Number 110060 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by: Professor Robert M. HazenGeorge Mason University and Carnegie Institution of Washington
Understanding the physical world around us is a source of endless wonder and intellectual joy.
Have you ever felt, perhaps while visiting a favorite museum, that you would like to know more about electricity, chemistry, physics, geology, our new understanding of genetics, the ozone hole, or even Einstein's celebrated theory of relativity? Or perhaps you'd just like to be able to explain what makes an ordinary light bulb work, or how gravity operates over a distance.
This course offers you a special, even unique, learning opportunity. It steers clear of the jargon and needless mathematical abstractions that so often bedevil science education. It features an integrated approach that allows you as a learner to transcend artificial disciplinary boundaries in order to gain a synoptic view of the whole scientific enterprise in all its breathtaking scope. You can claim for yourself what Professor Hazen calls "the incredible human adventure of scientific discovery."
The Joy of Science will provide you with a clear and bracing overview of the scientific worldfrom the laws of motion first formulated 300 years ago by Sir Isaac Newton, to the latest marvels of contemporary genetic research.
Your guide is Dr. Robert M. Hazen of George Mason University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Using anecdotes about everyday life to enliven his lectures, Dr. Hazen will share with you his love of scientific discovery and show you connections between such discoveries over time. Dr. Hazen is an apostle of science education for non-scientists, and he has few peers at rendering the most complex ideas simple, without being simplistic. Make no mistakethis is a course for adults, but it may also be helpful for young people to heighten their scientific understanding outside the classroom.
Order The Joy of Science today. You'll walk alongside the greatest minds in the history of science. You'll learn to grasp scientific laws, and the manifold relations among them, as never before. You'll come to see what makes science such a powerful tool for observing the world, explaining how it works, and making predictions about what our future may hold.
Part I
Lecture 1: The Nature of Science
Lecture 2: The Scientific Method
Lecture 3: The Ordered Universe
Lecture 4: Celestial and Terrestrial Mechanics
Lecture 5: Newton's Laws of Motion
Lecture 6: Universal Gravitation
Lecture 7: The Nature of Energy
Lecture 8: The First Law of Thermodynamics
Lecture 9: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Lecture 10: Entropy
Lecture 11: Magnetism and Static Electricity
Lecture 12: Electricity
Part II
Lecture 13: Electromagnetism
Lecture 14: The Electro- magnetic Spectrum, Part I
Lecture 15: The Electro- magnetic Spectrum, Part II
Lecture 16: Relativity
Lecture 17: Atoms
Lecture 18: The Bohr Atom
Lecture 19: The Quantum World
Lecture 20: The Periodic Table of the Elements
Lecture 21: Introduction to Chemistry
Lecture 22: The Chemistry of Carbon
Lecture 23: States of Matter and Changes of State
Lecture 24: Phase Transformations and Chemical Reactions
Part III
Lecture 25: Properties of Materials
Lecture 26: Semiconductors and Modern Microelectronics
Lecture 27: Isotopes and Radioactivity
Lecture 28: Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions
Lecture 29: Astronomy
Lecture 30: The Life Cycle of Stars
Lecture 31: Edwin Hubble and the Discovery of Galaxies
Lecture 32: The Big Bang
Lecture 33: The Ultimate Structure of Matter
Lecture 34: The Nebular Hypothesis
Lecture 35: The Solar System
Lecture 36: The Earth as a Planet
Part IV
Lecture 37: The Dynamic Earth
Lecture 38: The Plate Tectonics Revolution
Lecture 39: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Motions Today
Lecture 40: Earth Cycles Water
Lecture 41: The Atmospheric Cycle
Lecture 42: The Rock Cycle
Lecture 43: What Is Life?
Lecture 44: Strategies of Life
Lecture 45: Life's Molecular Building Blocks
Lecture 46: Proteins
Lecture 47: CellsThe Chemical Factories of Life
Lecture 48: Gregor Mendel, Founder of Genetics
Part V
Lecture 49: The Discovery of DNA
Lecture 50: The Genetic Code
Lecture 51: Reading the Genetic Code
Lecture 52: Genetic Engineering
Lecture 53: Cancer and Other Genetic Diseases
Lecture 54: The Chemical Evolution of Life
Lecture 55: Biological EvolutionA Unifying Theme of Biology
Lecture 56: The Fact of EvolutionThe Fossil Record
Lecture 57: Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection
Lecture 58: Ecosystems and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Lecture 59: The Ozone Hole, Acid Rain, and the Greenhouse Effect
Lecture 60: Science, the Endless Frontier
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