Introduction to astrophysics

Winn, Joshua teacher.

DVD 2018

Everyone loves to see the beauty of the star-studded night sky, but how many of us understand what makes stars shine, where Saturn's rings come from, or why galaxies have their distinctive shapes. Observational astronomy excels at cataloging celestial objects, but it takes a more rigorous discipline to come up with physical explanations for them. That field is astrophysics, which uses the laws of physics to investigate everything beyond Earth. In...

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Astronomy

Cosmology

Extrasolar planets

Galaxies

Planets

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Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics Great courses. Science & Mathematics : Astronomy

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ISBN:

9781629975986
1629975982

Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
digital optical stereo
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NTSC
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Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

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24 lectures (30 minutes each)
"Course no. 1360"--Container
Lecturer: Professor Joshua N. Winn, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
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Contents:

Disc 1: Zooming out to distant galaxies
Zooming in to fundamental particles
Making maps of the cosmos
The physics demonstration in the sky
Newton's hardest problem
Tidal forces
Disc 2: Black holes
Photons and particles
Comparative planetology
Optical telescopes
Radio and X-ray telescopes
The message in a spectrum
Disc 3: The properties of stars
Planets around other stars
Why stars shine
Simple stellar models
White dwarfs
When stars grow old
Disc 4: Supernovas and neutron stars
Gravitational waves
The Milky Way and other galaxies
Dark matter
The first atoms and the first nuclei
The history of the Universe

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3005910

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978162997598

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