Physics
Video Lectures - Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2005, 96pp, 2nd ed.
This course is an unrivaled opportunity to experience a full-year introductory college course on astronomy, delivered by a five-time winner of "Best Professor" on campus at the University of California, Berkeley, who himself is a leading participant in some of the groundbreaking discoveries at the forefront of the field.
Lectures
| 1. | A Grand Tour of the Cosmos |
| 2. | The Rainbow Connection |
| 3. | Sunrise, Sunset |
| 4. | Bright Objects in the Night Sky |
| 5. | Fainter Phenomena in the Night Sky |
| 6. | Our Sky through Binoculars and Telescopes |
| 7. | The Celestial Sphere |
| 8. | The Reason for the Seasons |
| 9. | Lunar Phases and Eerie Lunar Eclipses |
| 10. | Glorious Total Solar Eclipses |
| 11. | More Eclipse Tales |
| 12. | Early Studies of the Solar System |
| 13. | The Geocentric Universe |
| 14. | Galileo and the Copernican Revolution |
| 15. | Refinements to the Heliocentric Model |
| 16. | On the Shoulders of Giants |
| 17. | Surveying Space and Time |
| 18. | Scale Models of the Universe |
| 19. | Light—The Supreme Informant |
| 20. | The Wave-Particle Duality of Light |
| 21. | The Colors of Stars |
| 22. | The Fingerprints of Atoms |
| 23. | Modern Telescopes |
| 24. | A Better Set of Eyes |
| 25. | Our Sun, the Nearest Star |
| 26. | The Earth, Third Rock from the Sun |
| 27. | Our Moon, Earth's Nearest Neighbor |
| 28. | Mercury and Venus |
| 29. | Of Mars and Martians |
| 30. | Jupiter and Its Amazing Moons |
| 31. | Magnificent Saturn |
| 32. | Uranus and Neptune, the Small Giants |
| 33. | Pluto and Its Cousins |
| 34. | Asteroids and Dwarf Planets |
| 35. | Comets—Gorgeous Primordial Snowballs |
| 36. | Catastrophic Collisions |
| 37. | The Formation of Planetary Systems |
| 38. | The Quest for Other Planetary Systems |
| 39. | Extra-Solar Planets Galore! |
| 40. | Life Beyond the Earth |
| 41. | The Search for Extraterrestrials |
| 42. | Special Relativity and Interstellar Travel |
| 43. | Stars—Distant Suns |
| 44. | The Intrinsic Brightnesses of Stars |
| 45. | The Diverse Sizes of Stars |
| 46. | Binary Stars and Stellar Masses |
| 47. | Star Clusters, Ages, and Remote Distances |
| 48. | How Stars Shine—Nature's Nuclear Reactors |
| 49. | Solar Neutrinos—Probes of the Sun's Core |
| 50. | Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets |
| 51. | Our Sun's Brilliant Future |
| 52. | White Dwarfs and Nova Eruptions |
| 53. | Exploding Stars—Celestial Fireworks! |
| 54. | White Dwarf Supernovae—Stealing to Explode |
| 55. | Core-Collapse Supernovae—Gravity Wins |
| 56. | The Brightest Supernova in Nearly 400 Years |
| 57. | The Corpses of Massive Stars |
| 58. | Einstein's General Theory of Relativity |
| 59. | Warping of Space and Time |
| 60. | Black Holes—Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter |
| 61. | The Quest for Black Holes |
| 62. | Imagining the Journey to a Black Hole |
| 63. | Wormholes—Gateways to Other Universes? |
| 64. | Quantum Physics and Black-Hole Evaporation |
| 65. | Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 66. | Birth Cries of Black Holes |
| 67. | Our Home—The Milky Way Galaxy |
| 68. | Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy |
| 69. | Other Galaxies—"Island Universes" |
| 70. | The Dark Side of Matter |
| 71. | Cosmology—The Really Big Picture |
| 72. | Expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang |
| 73. | Searching for Distant Galaxies |
| 74. | The Evolution of Galaxies |
| 75. | Active Galaxies and Quasars |
| 76. | Cosmic Powerhouses of the Distant Past |
| 77. | Supermassive Black Holes |
| 78. | Feeding the Monster |
| 79. | The Paradox of the Dark Night Sky |
| 80. | The Age of the Universe |
| 81. | When Geometry Is Destiny |
| 82. | The Mass Density of the Universe |
| 83. | Einstein's Biggest Blunder? |
| 84. | The Afterglow of the Big Bang |
| 85. | Ripples in the Cosmic Background Radiation |
| 86. | The Stuff of the Cosmos |
| 87. | Dark Energy—Quantum Fluctuations? |
| 88. | Dark Energy—Quintessence? |
| 89. | Grand Unification & Theories of Everything |
| 90. | Searching for Hidden Dimensions |
| 91. | The Shape, Size, and Fate of the Universe |
| 92. | In the Beginning |
| 93. | The Inflationary Universe |
| 94. | The Ultimate Free Lunch? |
| 95. | A Universe of Universes |
| 96. | Reflections on Life and the Cosmos |