Physics of History - DVD, digital video course
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Course Details
Cost
$254.95
Upcoming Schedule
- On demand
Course Provider
The Great Courses online courses
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We surround the world’s greatest teachers w...
The Great Courses are uniquely crafted for lifelong learners like you, with
engaging, immersive learning experiences you can’t get in a lecture hall. The
secret ingredient is YOU. Our customers are involved at every step of the
process, helping to choose course subjects and select professors from the
thousands we screen each year. The course creation process that follows
involves so much more than just placing a camera in the back of a classroom.
We surround the world’s greatest teachers with a team of experts who
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Provider Subject Specialization
Humanities
Arts & Design
Course Description
With recent developments in technology, scientists can now use physics to explore intimate details about history, from the rise and fall of preliterate societies to the origins of the solar system. The Physics of History, taught by award-winning Professor David J. Helfand of Columbia University, gives you the background you need to understand how scientists know what they do about the past. These 24 richly illustrated lectures cover an astonishing range of cases in which physics has helped redefine history—in astronomy, archaeology, geology, climatology, and other fields.
