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The Great Courses: Physics in Your Life
- Item Number
- 421
- Estimated Value
- 375 USD
- Sold
- 82 USD to krisbad
- Number of Bids
- 8 - Bid History
Item Description
Why does a curve ball curve? Why does ice float? What's the perfect way to cook egg custard? How do CDs and DVDs work? Why don’t your legs break when you jump off a chair? What keeps a moving bicycle from falling over?
These questions involve physical principles that relate not only to interesting aspects of our daily lives, but also explain such phenomena as the cause of hurricanes, the formation of neutron stars, the ability of water to dissolve different substances, and other fundamental features of reality.
Therefore, this course that explores the physics of everyday events is not just informative and fun, it has the potential to lead to a deeper understanding of the universe.
But it takes a superb teacher to make these connections—to start with a nuts-and-bolts description of how a refrigerator works and end up with a profound insight into the ultimate fate of the cosmos.
Professor Richard Wolfson of Middlebury College is the ideal teacher to take you on this journey. The New York Times praised him as "absolutely stellar" in his Teaching Company course on modern physics, Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists. Now he brings the same enthusiasm to "everyday" physics, dealing with our basic understanding of the physical world as it applies to commonplace technologies and natural phenomena.
The Great Courses® Physics in Your Life
Taught By Professor Richard Wolfson, Ph.D., Dartmouth College, Middlebury College
Item Special Note
2 DVDs: 36 Lectures, 30 minutes per lecture
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Donated By:
Jason and Allison Smigel
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