Physics of History (Great Courses)

This is course number 1252 which contains 4 DVDs and course guidebook. Contains 24 lectures of 30 minutes each. Course Lecture Titles 1. The Vast Reaches of Time and Space 2. Fundamentally, What's the World Made Of? 3. Energy in the Atomic World 4. The Atomic Basis of the Senses 5. Radioactivity-Nature's Imperturbable Clock 6. From Detecting Forgeries to the First Art 7. Watching Plaster Dry-And Dating It 8. We Are What We Eat-The History of Diet 9. A Plant Is What It Eats-Tracing Agriculture 10. Tree Rings-Seasons of the Past 12,000 Years 11. Ice Cores-Climate Records for 800 Millennia 12. Ocean Sediments Reveal 5 Million Years 13. A Bad Day in June-Death of the Dinosaurs 14. The Origin and Early History of Life 15. The History of Earth's Atmosphere 16. The Age of the Solar System 17. What Happened before the Sun Was Born? 18. Atoms Are Star Stuff-Cooking Up Carbon 19. The Lives of Big Stars-Cooking Up Big Atoms 20. Relativity-Space and Time Become Spacetime 21. (Almost) Everything Is Relative 22. Matter Vanishes; Light Speed Is Breached? 23. The Limits of Vision-13.7 Billion Years Ago 24. The First Few Minutes-Where It All Began