12 essential scientific concepts, Indre Viskontas

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The instance 12 essential scientific concepts, Indre Viskontas represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bedford Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Instance, Sound Recording, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Text.

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Label

12 essential scientific concepts, Indre Viskontas

Statement of responsibility

Indre Viskontas

Instantiates

• 12 essential scientific concepts

Publication

• Chantilly, VA, The Great Courses, 2014

Copyright

• ©2014

Note

• "Course no. 1126"--Disc label
• Compact disc
• Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is ca. 30 min

Accompanying material

1 course guidebook (vi, 173 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Bibliography note

Bibliographic references in course guidebook

Capture and storage technique

unknown

Carrier category

audio disc

Carrier category code

• sd

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Configuration of playback channels

unknown

Content category

spoken word

Content type code

• spw

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• lecture 5.
• DNA and heritability
• lecture 6.
• Epigenetics, mutations, and gene insertion
• lecture 7.
• The illusion of coherence : how we see
• lecture 8.
• Acoustic perception deconstructed
• lecture 9.
• Our changing brain
• lecture 1:
• lecture 10.
• Plasticity, brain training, and beyond
• lecture 11.
• Magnetism and its magic
• lecture 12.
• Electrical forces, fields, and circuits
• lecture 13.
• Thermodynamics : heat, energy, and work
• lecture 14.
• Metabolism : energy in the cell
• The miracle of life
• lecture 15.
• Fluid mechanics : pressure, buoyancy, flow
• lecture 16.
• Navigation and propulsion in fluids
• lecture 17.
• The big bang that didn't
• lecture 18.
• The four forces of nature
• lecture 19.
• The elements of everything
• lecture 2.
• lecture 20.
• Looks like a particle, acts like a wave
• lecture 21.
• Quanta, uncertainty, and a cat
• lecture 22.
• String theory, membranes, and the multiverse
• lecture 23.
• Emergence : simple rules, complex systems
• lecture 24.
• Order out of chaos
• The organization of life
• lecture 3.
• Evolution : the tireless tinkerer
• lecture 4.
• Other mechanisms of evolution

Dimensions

4 3/4 in. +

Dimensions

4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter

Extent

12 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.)

Groove width / pitch

not applicable

Isbn

9781629970400

Kind of cutting

not applicable

Kind of disc cylinder or tape

mass produced

Kind of material

plastic with metal

Media category

audio

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• s

Other physical details

digital

Publisher number

• IC1126A-01
• PB1126A

Record ID

1697405

Special playback characteristics

digital recording

Specific material designation

• sound disc
• regular print

Speed

1.4m. per second (discs)

System control number

• (OCoLC)873101348
• (OCoLC)ocn873101348

Tape configuration

not applicable

Tape width

not applicable