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    Cosmology [digital videodisc] : the history and nature of our universe.
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    Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2008.
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  • Cosmology.
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    9781598034936
    1598034936
    9781598034943 (course guidebooks)
    1598034944 (course guidebooks)
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    Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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    6 videodiscs (180 min. each) in 3 containers : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks.
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    Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1:The journey ahead ; Lecture 2: Denizens of the universe ; Lecture 3: Overall cosmic properties ; Lecture 4: The stuff of the universe ; Lecture 5: The sweep of cosmic history ; Lecture 6: Measuring distances -- Disc 2. Lecture 7: Expansion and age ; Lecture 8: Distances, appearances, and horizons ; Lecture 9: Dark matter and dark energy--96%! ; Lecture 11: Cosmic expansion--keeping track of energy ; Lecture 12: Cosmic acceleration--falling outward. Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13: The cosmic microwave background ; Lecture 14: Conditions during the first million years ; Lecture 15: Primordial sound--big bang acoustics ; Lecture 16: Using sound as cosmic diagnostic ; Lecture 17: Primordial roughness--seeding structure ; Lecture 18: The Dark Age--from sound to the first stars -- Disc 4. Lecture 19: Infant galaxies ; Lecture 20: From child to maturity--galaxy evolution ; Lecture 21: Giant Black Holes--construction and carnage ; Lecture 22: The galaxy web--a relic of primordial sound ; Lecture 23: Atom factories--stellar interiors ; Lecture 24: Understanding element abundances. Part 3: Disc 5. Lecture 25: Light elements--made in the Big Bang ; Lecture 26: Putting it together--the Concordance Model Lecture 27: Physics at ultrahigh temperatures ; Lecture 28: Back to a microsecond--the particle cascade ; Lecture 29: Back to the GUT--matter and forces emerge ; Lecture 30: Puzzling problems remain -- Disc 6. Lecture 31: Inflation provides the solution ; Lecture 32: The quantum origin of all structure ; Lecture 33: Inflation's stunning creativity ; Lecture 34: Fine tuning and anthropic arguments ; Lecture 35: What's next for cosmology? ; Lecture 36: A comprehensible universe?
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    In his 36 lectures, professor Mark Whittle talks on knowledge of astronomy and our universe.
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