General Science
Video Lectures - Joy of Science
Publisher: Video Lectures, 2005, 60pp, 1st ed.
Professor 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. He introduces great ideas of science in 60 lectures that explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of all of the physical and biological sciences—physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more.
Lectures
| 1. | The Nature of Science |
| 2. | The Scientific Method |
| 3. | The Ordered Universe |
| 4. | Celestial and Terrestrial Mechanics |
| 5. | Newton's Laws of Motion |
| 6. | Universal Gravitation |
| 7. | The Nature of Energy |
| 8. | The First Law of Thermodynamics |
| 9. | The Second Law of Thermodynamics |
| 10. | Entropy |
| 11. | Magnetism and Static Electricity |
| 12. | Electricity |
| 13. | Electromagnetism |
| 14. | The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part I |
| 15. | The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part II |
| 16. | Relativity |
| 17. | Atoms |
| 18. | The Bohr Atom |
| 19. | The Quantum World |
| 20. | The Periodic Table of the Elements |
| 21. | Introduction to Chemistry |
| 22. | The Chemistry of Carbon |
| 23. | States of Matter and Changes of State |
| 24. | Phase Transformations and Chemical Reactions |
| 25. | Properties of Materials |
| 26. | Semiconductors and Modern Microelectronics |
| 27. | Isotopes and Radioactivity |
| 28. | Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions |
| 29. | Astronomy |
| 30. | The Life Cycle of Stars |
| 31. | Edwin Hubble and the Discovery of Galaxies |
| 32. | The Big Bang |
| 33. | The Ultimate Structure of Matter |
| 34. | The Nebular Hypothesis |
| 35. | The Solar System |
| 36. | The Earth as a Planet |
| 37. | The Dynamic Earth |
| 38. | The Plate Tectonics Revolution |
| 39. | Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Motions Today |
| 40. | Earth Cycles—Water |
| 41. | The Atmospheric Cycle |
| 42. | The Rock Cycle |
| 43. | What Is Life? |
| 44. | Strategies of Life |
| 45. | Life's Molecular Building Blocks |
| 46. | Proteins |
| 47. | Cells—The Chemical Factories of Life |
| 48. | Gregor Mendel, Founder of Genetics |
| 49. | The Discovery of DNA |
| 50. | The Genetic Code |
| 51. | Reading the Genetic Code |
| 52. | Genetic Engineering |
| 53. | Cancer and Other Genetic Diseases |
| 54. | The Chemical Evolution of Life |
| 55. | Biological Evolution—A Unifying Theme of Biology |
| 56. | The Fact of Evolution—The Fossil Record |
| 57. | Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection |
| 58. | Ecosystems and the Law of Unintended Consequences |
| 59. | The Ozone Hole, Acid Rain, and the Greenhouse Effect |
| 60. | Science, the Endless Frontier |